Huge losses as houses near power lines brought downResidential houses believed to have erected under Kenya Power land demolished in Buru farm in Njiru, Nairobi. Kenya Power says the houses are among thousands of structures illegally erected on a 100km-stretch reserve known as wayleave, stretching 5,300km countrywide. Last December, the owners of the houses built in Buruburu Farmers Land, Njiru, Mowlem and Saika were issued notices to demolish earmarked structures. “We started with Buruburu Farmers Land, next will be Mihang’o and all the way up to Dandora Power Substation,” he said. “No one, including the people who sold us and Kenya Power, warned us that we were building illegally,” she said.

Source: Standard Digital March 13, 2019 21:06 UTC