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Remnants of Nairobi ‘City Carton’
Traders use iron sheets to barricade Kirinyaga Road in Nairobi. Photo/JAMES NJUGUNA
Ever since the British dumped some World War II mechanics on the stretch of land near Nairobi River, then known as Grogan Road East, the area has witnessed various skirmishes as contest for space continues.
Attempts to remove the mechanics, and their second and third-generation successors, has always led to death and anarchy and no amount of force cows them. They still come back.