Kanyakwar residents demonstrate over demolition of a house belonging a PWD.

 Loice Lang'o address the press at Kanyakwar area where their house has been demolished today by goons in the pretext of wanting the family to comply with a court order to vacate the land.Seated is her husband John Lang'o Otieno, a person with disability-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

 By Dickson Odhiambo

December 19, 2018.

Kanyakwar residents demonstrate over demolition of a house belonging a PWD.

A SECTION of Residents of Kanyakwar area within Kisumu Central Sub-County have today demonstration over what they have termed as illegal demolition of a residential house belonging to an old man who is a person with disability.

The residents took their demonstration along Mamboleo-Riat Road where they carried twigs while blowing whistles where they protested a move by a section of goons who were accompanied by Police, arriving there to ensure the family complied with a court order wanting them to vacate the land immediately.

They demonstrated up to the Seventh Day Adventist Western Kenya Conference building and went back to the main road  of Kisumu-Kakamega Road near the Lake Basin Development Mall while castigating the unfortunate incident.

A section of the residents who addressed the press castigated the move, saying this is not acceptable at all to a person with disability.

Addressing the press at the homestead where three semi-permanent houses have been demolished, the home owner mzee John Lang’o Otieno explained his predicament and said police in a land cruiser vehicle accompanied the more than 100 youths on motorbikes who were armed and ordered him to walk out of the house telling him that they came to demolish the houses.

He says after being ordered out the goons proceeded to destroy his three houses within twenty minutes after they forcefully removed the family’s belonging outside the house.

Otieno says he now has nowhere to go with his wife and their six children after the unfortunate incident.

He claims that the goons also disappeared with some of his belonging like some tools and other items.

Otieno says the land is an ancestral one and belongs to the family after he inherited it from his forefathers.

Otieno’s  wife Loice Lang’o says the act is uncalled for and demands that action should be taken against the perpetrators of the heinous act where their residence has been destroyed.

“We need justice to be done for what has just happened to us as a family where our home has been raided and houses demolished with impunity by goons in the pretext of wanting us to comply with a court order,” she says amid sobbing uncontrollably.

She says as a family they were not served with any court order wanting them to vacate the land they are currently staying in. 

Robert Ochieng, a resident of the area said the incident is very unfortunate and action should be taken against those who have done such like a thing.

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