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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A vicious cartel headed by a prison guard has taken hold of Shauri Moyo – violently extorting, coercing, fleecing and conning hapless residents hundreds of thousands of shillings – in an illegal scheme to move from the houses owned by the Nairobi County Government.<\/p>\n

The five-person gang is the operational arm of the faceless cartel, headed by a towering figure said to be a prison warden.<\/p>\n

He rolls around with two lieutenants including a police officer, and the other, a man referred to as “commissioner”, is said to have been until recently, a security guard.<\/p>\n

The two moonlight in effect, as the muscle, actioning violent midnight evictions with reckless abandon.<\/p>\n

The gang seeks interested parties looking to rent or purchase the units which are owned and managed by City Hall. Then they’ll approach a resident within an ultimatum: either match the new figure or move out.<\/p>\n

The Background<\/b><\/p>\n

Kenya’s capital, Nairobi – as with most cities – hosts several slums, which notoriously live up to a dubious reputation.<\/p>\n

Shauri Moyo is Nairobi\u2019s oldest slum – dating back to the late 1930s. It’s perhaps the busiest of Nairobi slums – centrally located on the left side of Jogoo Road, a busy infrastructural artery from the CBD.<\/p>\n

Shauri Moyo is colloquial for \u201cconsult your heart” – a dilemma early Africans had to face. They had to make a choice, leave or stay as the British had divided Nairobi into settlement schemes based on racial lines.<\/p>\n

There were first, second and third-class citizens with Europeans taking up one class, Arabs and Asians taking the second class. Africans occupied the lowest class. Shauri Moyo was earmarked for the third-class citizenry.<\/p>\n

Shauri Moyo hosts Kenya\u2019s largest meat joint, Burma, which was started in 1939, during WWII. It also has the Kamukunji Grounds, a landmark feature in Kenya’s political landscape.<\/p>\n

The settlement has five villages: Burma, Juakali l, and ll, Mombasa Ndogo and Kisumu Ndogo. The slum narrative started changing in Mwai Kibaki’s tenure, which started an ambitious plan to modernise informal settlements.<\/p>\n

As it was, in 2013, the County Government of Nairobi inherited the project – to undertake an urban renewal and redevelopment project that will see the construction of 100,000 new housing units in existing old public housing estates.<\/p>\n

This redevelopment project rode on the back of a County Comprehensive Urban Renewal Programme (ECURP), which involved replacing old, run-down or under-utilized areas with new developments which are properly planned with adequate transport and other infrastructure and community facilities.<\/p>\n

Shauri Moyo slum’s project began in earnest, in 2010 – on a parcel next to Jogoo Road approximately 8 acres large with a development potential of over 4,000 units of various mixes of 1bed, 2bed and 3bed units.<\/p>\n

There’s a published system of purchasing the new units in Phase I, and it began in January 2014.<\/p>\n

Well, as it is, the government served notice in March 2014 to vacate the old council houses, to allow demolition so as to pave way for the construction of Phase II units.<\/p>\n

Though the old residents vacated, the old housing units are still standing.<\/p>\n

This is the loophole that the Shauri Moyo cartel attached onto, and made a cash cow out of.<\/p>\n

Initially, the people heading the cartel started renting out the old, vacated units to new people seeking houses. After a while – as the government didn’t bat an eyelid – the cartel graduated to selling the old houses.<\/p>\n

In 2015, to buy a house council house at Shauri Moyo would cost you Ksh10,000.00, and several units were sold.<\/p>\n

As the demand rose, that price has steadily risen to a range of between Ksh40,000 to Ksh50,000.<\/p>\n

The problem arises in that the cartel has employed violent means to extort, coerce and manipulate the initial buyers to fork out more money for the old council units.<\/p>\n

If an occupant ignores the demands, the cartel descends on them at midnight and carries out a forceful eviction. Much like wayward landlords.<\/p>\n

The gang, headed by the prison guard operates in plain sight, just a spitting distance from Makongeni Police Station. They are mostly based at the roundabout that branches off to Eastleigh, near the Heshima Primary School gate.<\/p>\n

All reports made by victims to Makongeni Police Station keep gathering dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. A vicious cartel headed by a prison guard has taken hold of Shauri Moyo – violently extorting, coercing, fleecing and conning hapless residents hundreds of thousands of shillings – in an illegal scheme to move from the houses owned by the Nairobi County Government. 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