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Umoja III Estate: A tale of three Khan brothers, greed & criminal gangs

Three brothers decided to sell a large chunk of land along Kangundo Road in the 1960s. Little did they know it would mark the beginning of a protracted dispute lasting over 50 years. 

At the cusp of independence in December 1963, Goan siblings Khan Nawaz Khan, Khan Abbas Khan and Mehdi Khan put up their 818-acre farmland in Dandora, Nairobi, for sale. The swathe of land from Dandora Civil Servants through Nasra to Jacaranda estate had been given to them by British colonists in 1922.

Note that Kangundo did...