Kenya: 300 in Taveta May Miss 2013 Polls Over Evictions

12 November 2012

More than 300 residents of Riata in Taveta might not vote in next year's elections. Their IDs were destroyed when police burnt their houses to evict them from a government land.

Administration police officers, with orders from local Lands officials, torched 200 houses, including a church. Benard Mbuvi, a resident, said their property worth millions of shillings was destroyed by bulldozers.

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