The Nairobi county has issued a warning to its tenants to pay Sh100m rent arrears or be evicted by February 5. "All tenants living in Nairobi county rental houses with accumulated rent arrears should clear the same with immediate effect," acting county secretary Leboo Morintat said on Tuesday. Read: Nakuru county, tenants in talks over Sh180 million rent arrearsIn a statement, Morintat further noted that the county has laid down procedures for transferring county rental houses. "It is illegal to irregularly transfer trade in assign and sublet any county rental house. In 2016, tenants of the old buildings set for demolition to pave the way for new houses in Nairobi County dared the developers to evict them.

Source: The Star January 23, 2018 15:10 UTC