Rights groups ask Uhuru to stop deportations from Nairobi and the Mau Forest

Eight human rights organizations yesterday asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop the ongoing forced evictions in Nairobi and elsewhere.

Groups want the president to declare a moratorium on mbad evictions until the government

Human rights groups say Kura has targeted at least 10 other neighborhoods informal evictions after Kibera to make room for road projects. The groups are: Cradle Kenya, Amnesty International, Slum Dwellers International, Shining Hope for Communities, Change Mtaani, International Commission of Jurists, Economic and Social Center and Pamoja Trust. Their executive directors spoke at a press conference in the Amnesty International offices at Parkfield Place, in the state of Westlands.

"The Multisectoral Committee on Dangerous Structures and the Kuras have publicly declared their intention to repeat the violence in Kibera. "The call follows demolitions in the Kibera slum and in the Mau Forest, which left thousands homeless," said Cradle Kenya CEO Michael Wasonga. The groups reported that the government has also planned demolitions in the Deeplands Reserves at Parklands, Accra, Ngara, Kenya Power and Kenya Railways in Kaloleni, Makongeni, Mbotela, Mutindwa, Dandora and Kamae near Kenyatta University.

The groups reported that more than 3,000 residents of the Deep Sea slum had paved the way for a link road, but Kura officials, John Cheboi, dismissed the complaint as a fabrication aimed at badping the public at the government. Mr. Cheboi said that the authority had planned to build roads in the slums of Ngara and Deep Sea and that she was already negotiating with the concerned residents to relocate.

"It's a big lie and these NGOs must always tell the truth." The human rights groups blamed Kura for failing to comply with a court order that had arrested him. Eviction and violated an agreement reached with the National Land Commission, the National Human Rights Commission of Kenya and They agreed that residents should not be expelled without a resettlement plan, the groups said

"What we have seen is the highest form of dishonesty on the part of Kura. "The groups have asked the Ministry of Transport and Koura to make public the list of people affected by the demolitions in Kibera and to act on the basis of agreed agreements," said Pauline Vata, Executive Director of Haki Jamii.

But Cheboi accused the organizations of insincerity, saying that Kura has been working with them since 2016.