Court Clears Way for President Kenyatta to Put Up 7,000 Housing Units in Nairobi's Shauri Moyo Estate
The government can continue with plans of putting up more than 7,000 housing units in Nairobi's Shauri Moyo estate, the High Court has ruled.
The ruling comes after 300 civil servants moved to court seeking to have the plan stopped until the government provides them with alternative accommodation.
The government wants to demolish the existing old structures in the estate, where the civil servants are living, and put up modern houses under President Kenyatta's affordable housing pillar.
In her ruling, Justice Wilfrida Okwany says that the relationship between the government and the civil servants is that of a landlord-tenant and the former has the right to do whatever he wants with his property as long as the tenant is given adequate notice to vacate.
The judge further notes that the applicants failed to prove that they cannot secure alternative accommodation and dismissed their argument that there are school going and disabled children in the houses.
Under the low-cost housing plan, President Uhuru's administration plans to construct more than 500,000 units for sale to Kenyans in the next four years.
Comments (5)
The construction of these low cost housing should be done by Kenyans.
We hope this is not another borrowing from foreigners. Mr. President, trust Kenyans on the cheap housing.
Mwakilishi! "The government" (NOT Uhuru) "can continue with plans of putting up more than 7,000 housing units in Nairobi's Shauri Moyo estate". It's government money; not Uhuru's.
It's not the government's money. The government is broke; it's the Chinese's borrowed money.
For sale to Kenyans? The rich will buy them then rent at ahigher rate,therefore for it will not be affordable to the average Joe-Six -Pac.Thus the "poor" will be pushed into slums.
Clear the slums by building these affordable houses there,and put afixed rate by subsidizing. We need to get rid of those eye sore slums.This will go along way to beautifying Nairobi,as well as creating affordable housing for the common mwananchi.Where will the governmet the the funds to subsidize you ask? Well, the PPD,and DCI are in London to bring back billions of looted funds.What abetter way to give back to wananchi who were robbed than to remove them from the slums...
I dont deny that Shauri moyo estate needs a face lift,or a wrecking ball to clear way for new buildings,but compare Shauri moyo to Majengo?Which one needs to go...?Eventually shauri moyo will look like a slum,or become one,then it will be time to be replaced by new buildings.My two cents...
Looting spree again just like the laptops schema. Poleni wakenya