Nairobi eyeing 67-acre forest as cemetery in swap deal

Grave's at Langata Cementry that are filled with copses, the County Government was supposed to relocate the Cemetry after it was filled, but still copses are dug there because the new site has not been identified. [Phillip Orwa, Standard]

Nairobi now wants to swap the filled-up 100-acre Langata Cemetery land with a 67- acre Kenya forest land nearby to serve as the county’s new burial grounds.

The land being eyed for the swap is next to Langata cemetery and if the deal is successful it will be converted into a cemetery for Muslims, Christians and Hindus.