Families based in Mirisho, Kajiado County had to re-live the horror of burying their loved ones after they were forced to exhume the bodies of their kin.
The locals woke up as early as 6am on Tuesday in order to undertake the disheartening exercise of exhuming and re-burying their departed loved ones.
This was necessitated following the recent demarcation of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) phase two route which cuts across several burial spots across the county.
“What kind of developments are these that are so painful to the people who are supposed to be smiling?” one of the locals posed to Citizen Digital.
Reports stated that the residents of Miricho were faced with no other options following the prolonged case with the National Lands Commission (NLC) regarding compensation for the land.
The families claimed to have received nothing so far, yet their parcels of land had been taken over and houses already demolished.
NLC on its part claimed that the demolitions and forceful exhumations were in order to pave way for the completion of phase two of the SGR which is scheduled to be completed by August 2019.
The residents, therefore, felt they needed to carry out the process of re-burying their loved ones before the government moved in and forcefully exhumed their bodies without paying the deceased any respect.
In a fresh twist, 12 households were cast into uncertainty regarding their compensation after NLC classified their parcels of land as disputed, thereby warranting further investigations and fresh valuations.
Residents of Gathanji village, Gatundu North, were in the same predicament back on June 10, 2019, when they were forced to dig up three bodies of their relatives to pave way for the construction of the Ksh24 billion Kariminu Dam.
