Panic, Despair As Gov’t Demolishes Houses in Nairobi’s Mukuru
On Tuesday, government officials launched demolitions and evictions in the Sepu section of Nairobi’s Mukuru Kwa Njenga estate, shocking residents.
Images and videos circulating online show distressed locals watching helplessly and in despair as the government demolished their homes despite an existing court order prohibiting such conduct.
Mukuru Kwa Njenga’s Riara Zone demolitions remain suspect.
This comes after the Environment and Land Court granted a conservatory injunction, which prohibited evictions, demolitions, and any interference with residents occupying the disputed land until the case is heard and decided.
Ongoing demolitions at Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Riara Zone, with heavy police presence, leaving families displaced, livelihoods destroyed and communities forced to watch their homes reduced to rubble without humane alternatives.
— Mukuru News (@MukuruSPA) December 23, 2025
Frame 3 explains everything.
Singapoor here we come. pic.twitter.com/DBtz5Rkj6Q
The injunction, issued earlier this month, sought to protect communities from being forcibly evacuated while maintaining the status quo.
Witnesses report that security personnel raided the neighborhood early in the morning, evicting residents from their houses and causing fear and demonstrations in the community.
As panic and uncertainty spread, families were seen frantically saving home items, leaving many without a place to live.
Several locals are now homeless as a result of the tragedy; photographs show them lugging the remains of their local iron sheet dwellings.
A large police force had been deployed to Riara to oversee the demolitions.
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This has transpired days after President William Ruto handed over houses to a number of residents at the recently completed phase two of the affordable housing project.
The President, on December 18, handed the houses over to 4,500 people in a ceremony that saw them given fully furnished houses.
This follows an earlier handover of 1,080 units in the first phase of the Mukuru Kwa Njenga affordable housing project in May 2025.
Mukuru kwa Reuben demolitions. pic.twitter.com/8NJfArxnW2
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) May 3, 2024
In other demolitions in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, residents of Makongeni estates were recently forced to leave their homes so that the oldest estate could be demolished to make way for affordable housing.
Panic, Despair As Gov’t Demolishes Houses in Nairobi’s Mukuru
