PICTURE CAPTION: one of the house on which residents were foreced to evacate before being demolished by tractors and excavators. photo{courtesy}
Hundreds of residents from Ngala estate in Malindi in Kilifi County have been forced to sleep on the cold throughout the night after their houses where they had been living were demolished by excavators under police surveillance from Malindi Police Station.
It is believed that the eviction act of the houses on the midnight hours was implemented following a court order which was submitted to the police, through the ministry of national housing.According to Twahir Abdulkarim a human rights activists defended the house tenants saying that there was a need for one to be informed on what is actually going on.
“We condemn this act since everybody has his own right, displacing people during the night ours so as to obey court orders is not accepted,” he said.
Some of the victims who had not been informed lamented on the act saying that they want to know who exactly went to court and was given the orders to evict them.
“We know we have been having some rough time with a certain businessman who claims to be the owner of this plot, but as we speak here he has never given out substantial evidence to show that this plot belongs to him,” said one of the victims.
“We are being oppressed as if we are not Kenyans, we are seeking for justice from the government,” he added.
Among those houses which were demolished was a nursery school which had almost 40 pupils.
However Malindi Sub-County security committee chairman Karung'o Kamau said that he had no idea of the ongoing eviction adding that he had not receive any court order conserving the midnight act.