When government bulldozers flattened houses in Kibera two weeks ago and left over 20,000 people homeless, most of Nairobi's middle and upper class thought nothing of it, chalking it to just one more way in which life punishes the economically disadvantaged in this country.
However, the recent spate of demolitions this week have been targeted at Nairobi's posher addresses, indiscriminately bringing down restaurants, houses, swimming pools along with perimeter walls and even entire malls, as happened at South End Mall on Lang'ata Road yesterday.
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