In the wee hours of May 4, bulldozers descended on Nairobi’s Kariobangi Sewage slum. Women and children hopelessly watched as structures that had housed them since 2008 were reduced to a rubble to reclaim land initially set aside for sewerage.
A few weeks earlier, other settlers in designated sewerage land in Ruai had suffered a similar fate as the State brought down their houses, most of them built using loans and in one broad stroke they were rendered homeless.
