A section of Mukuru Kwa Reuben residents on Wednesday occupied a local police station seeking to forestall alleged plans to evict them to pave the way for the government to build more units under the Affordable Housing Programme.
On Tuesday, May 20, President William Ruto presided over the official handover of 1,080 housing units to beneficiaries at Mukuru's housing project in Embakasi South.
The project sits on 56 acres, comprising 13,248 housing units, a development that features bedsitters (5,616 units across 26 blocks), one-bedrooms (3,024 units in 14 blocks), and two-bedrooms (4,608 units across 48 blocks).
It emerged that the government planned to evict residents from another section of the slum to put up more houses.
