A former nominated Member of Parliament, Hassan Aden Osman, survived eviction on Wednesday, April 5 after security officers raided his home in Kileleshwa, Nairobi County.
The former legislator deployed private security officers after police stationed at his property in Kileleshwa sought to evict him in a battle with the Kenya Railways Corporation.
Timely intervention by his close relatives and private security scuttled the plan to evict the former lawmaker.
Aden and his kin indicated that they had lived in that property for years, but their lease expired in 2021, and they renewed it for six years.
However, in October 2022, Kenya Railways served the MP with a notice of termination.
"The organisation, in the review of its functions, desires to utilise the demised property for its own use," the eviction notice read in part.
"In this regard, the corporation will invoke clause number 3 (c) of your expired tenancy agreement by giving you one month notice to vacate the property," the former legislator was directed.
Aden, a nominated MP from 2013 to 2017, moved to court to stop the eviction from the prime property in Nairobi posh estate.
"There is a dark force behind all this with an intent to unlawfully evict us in order to grab this land," Hassan Isaack, the family representative, stated.
The family further decried harassment, arguing that the eviction push was politically instigated. Isaack added read malice indicating a plot to grab the piece of land.
"We have filed various reports at the Kileleshwa Police Station regarding the incident because they have been coming to disturb us often," Isaack explained.
Kenya Railways, however, dismissed reports that the raid was political, insisting that the matter was still pending in court.
