High Court judge Kossy Bor has turned down a petition seeking to stop the start of the Pangani Affordable Housing Project initiative.
According to the judge, Nairobi county government acted according to the law as the county and residents have had enough consultations.
Adding that the project is among President Uhuru Kenyatta's Big Four agenda, the judge noted that there was no enough evidence to stop its commencement.
The county government through lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui had urged the court not to grant residents their wish as it had political interests whose aim was to delay government projects.
Kinyanjui further noted that residents had been consulted since 2015.
"The claims that the residents were not consulted hold no water because the county has been engaging them from 2015. This was not an overnight decision," Kinyanjui said.
Nairobi County Governor also came out to insist that the project will go on as planned as tenants had been given enough time to move out. He points out that the 48 tenants had been compensated with Sh600,000 each to relocate.
He also noted that they had been assured of first priority in the houses when phase one of the project is completed within a year.
Few tenants who remained had their houses demolished since they defiled the government's order.
After the court ruling, the project will start any time soon. Around 1,588 decent houses will be constructed in the first phase of the project.