Renowned political commentator Allan Kibet has come out to claim that President Uhuru Kenyatta forcefully evicted the residents of Ruai and Kariobangi from the ` public` land so as to commence the construction of Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project whose main aim is to expand the sanitation services in Nairobi. In a long Facebook Post, Kibet claimed that the sanitation facility which will be financed by the Ksh 33 billion loan from World Bank will stand to benefit the Kenyatta family housing project, Northlands City. The project is said to be of help to the Ksh 500 billion project that is under way and has already seen replacement of other institutions such as Uhuru Kenyatta Secondary School.

Why Is Uhuru Evicting Ruai`s Innocent Land Owners? On 10 May 2012, the World Bank approved Kshs. 33 Billion facility called Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project, which had been instigated when Uhuru was Finance Minister, specifically for expansion of Sanitation Services in Nairobi City. However, Kidero was unwilling to implement this Project cos it meant evicting people in Kariobangi and Ruai who had been sold their land by his own campaigners. Governor Sonko also refused the eviction of these people knowing how they were conned into buying this land.

It is unknown how many people are affected.

http://www.hlrn.org/news.php?title=Kenya:-Ruai-Evictions,-Why-Now?&id=p3FmbA==#.X3ZrsFl7nOQ

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