Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has asked the multi-agency team leading demolitions of buildings on riparian land in the city to exercise humanity and give tenants time to salvage their belongings.
Sakaja says that it is wrong for the agencies to bring down buildings with property of tenants inside.
In an interview on KTN News on Saturday, the Jubilee senator said that there are complaints that tenants in the condemned buildings are not being allowed to take their property.
Sakaja also wants the team to issue notices on the buildings they intend to bring down in the coming weeks.
"I have personally received complaints from tenants that they are not being notified on the impending demolitions in the process losing their property," he said.
The senator while supporting the demolitions on riparian land said that the law has to be followed.
He said that some of the tenants took loans and it is bad to see their property go to waste.
"I appeal to Governor Mike Sonko to ensure that the law is strictly followed as they continue with the demolitions on riparian land," he said.
Sakaja also supported President Uhuru Kenyatta's call for prosecution of state officers who approved construction of buildings on riparian land.
He said that the rogue officers must be forced to compensate for illegal approvals.