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Police spray teargas to flats in Kasarani,demonstrations enter day 4

January 16, 2020

rsz_demos — Residents block the Kasarani-Mwiki road with Bonfires in the ongoing demonstrations |PHOTO: Courtesy

The police in are using all means to disperse the demonstrations being held in Kasarani over the poor state of Kasarani-Mwiki road.

In a video shared by a Twitter user a police anti-riot water cannon truck was seen spraying teargas to flats in the area.

The Police truck could be seen spraying the teargas with no demonstrators within.

Wako mtaa #Kasarani wanavuruga Tax payer juu amedemand service delivery. Dictatorship ndio order of the day. pic.twitter.com/AjTtd9WTXK
— Mr.Vunulu (@parroty_sharifu) January 15, 2020

A video shared by a Twitter user showing a police truck spraying teargas to the nearby flats.

So far no elected leader in the area has come out to give a solution to the residents who are now taking demonstrations to the fourth day.

Kenya Urban Roads Authority(KURA) has also not communicated officially on the state of the road and if they will start working on it.

However in a response to a twitter user KURA said that they have engaged with Public representatives from Kasarani and have agreed to start working on road soon.

We held discussions with Public Representatives from Kasarani on 14th Tuesday, January 2020 and came to an agreement that the road to be constructed afresh. We are in the process of tendering, meanwhile our contractor is on site doing everything possible to make the road passable
— KURA (@KURAroads) January 16, 2020

In May, 2018 KURA announced that it had finished working on the road after the residents held similar demonstrations but it is over a year since then and the road is now full of potholes and generally impassable.

Kasarani-Mwiki road after KURA worked on it in 2018. |PHOTO: Courtesy

The current state of Kasarani-Mwiki road in 2020 January full of potholes |PHOTO: Courtesy

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