Kanyakwar residents takes their protest to police station over demolition.

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 Kisumu Central Sub-County OCPD Anncent Kaloki{in brown uniform} tries to calm the residents of Kanyakwar area who protested the demolition of a home belonging to a person with Disabilty.-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo





By Dickson Odhiambo

December 19, 2018.

Kanyakwar residents takes their protest to police station over demolition.

OVER 100 residents of Kanyakwar area within Kisumu Central Sub-County have today taken their peaceful demonstration to Kisumu Central Police station following the illegal demolition of a home belonging to a person with disability.

They marched from their area near the Lake Basin Development Mall several kilometers to Kisumu Central Police station within Kisumu City where they have registered their displeasure with the police whom they have accused of overseeing a process of what they have termed as illegal demolition of the three houses belonging to mzee John Lang’o Otieno who is a person with disability.

They literally camped near Kisumu Central Police station for nearly two hours before Kisumu Central Sub-County Police Boss Annecent Kaloki came out and addressed them.

They blew the whistles several times until the police officers led by the OCPD came to hear their plight.

A section of the residents at first wanted to know why police had accompanied over 100 goons to carry out demolition exercise while purporting to be having a court order.

Led by Robert Ochieng a resident within the area, they also wanted to know why such an act has been meted on the old man in the name of Paul Olang’ yet his names in his National Identity Card indicates that he official name is John Olang Otieno and he is not the respondent who has been named in the purported court order.

They want the police to explain under what law did such a demolition been undertaken, adding that the family have been left with no place to stay in after the unfortunate incident.

After a few minutes of argument, Kisumu Central Sub-County Police Boss Annecent Kaloki said he is aware a court order was given to them but was quick to point out that he was not ready to respond to the queries the residents ask about the incident.

The Police Boss then called ten representatives of group to his office for a closed door meeting and by the time of going to press the meeting had not ended.

ENDS:

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