Thika’s Ofafa, Starehe and Ziwani estate residents have asked the county government of Kiambu to review the cumulative sums of money paid to the county government.
This is since they finished paying their arrears to the Housing Finance and accumulated the whole amount to add up to a total for part payment of complete ownership to their houses.
According to Philip Ndung’u, an elderly from the area, he settled in the area in 1952 where he was also one of those who furnished the houses. Allegedly when the Housing Finance heard that the houses were being sold to the residents, they first asked to recover their debt from the residents even though it is more than 20 years since they completed paying the debt.
He said that the county government should count all the rent they have been paying since everyone cleared the debt and add it up as part payment for a lump sum which should be paid to own the houses.
Ndung’u said that the county government has a plan to come claiming that they want to construct a state of the art structure and displacing them after a lifetime living in those houses.
“Our children were born in these houses and we have raised them up here. It is more than 40 years and they also have families and thus telling them to leave or even hiking the normal pay will only oppress them,” Ndung’u protested.