A family living in Nairobi's Westlands estate has been left in shock after an unknown gang stormed their home, evicted them and demolished their houses.
According to one of the family members, Ms Jaameeta Kurji, about 30 men armed with pangas and rungus raided their home at 5am Sunday morning before a bulldozer flattened their house - a duplex shared by the families of two brothers.
Ms Kurji divulged that two men in a black Mercedes Benz broke down the locks of the adjoining house, which belonged to her late uncle Sadrudin Kurji.
The distressed woman divulged that when they alerted the police, officers who arrived at he scene could not move into her uncle's place where the suspects were.
"We called the police and instead of going there, they came to our house and started asking my father questions. They went away and didn't do anything. The men were left there and they started bringing in more and more people, taking apart cupboards and destroying things, " Ms Kurji said.
The gang is said to have chased away two administration police officers the family had hired and attacked the guards manning the premises. One guard, Joseph Nyagonchonga was badly cut as he fought off the men.
The family only managed to take away a few of their belongings before the house was brought down.
The Kurji family and the men who arrived in a Mercedes Benz have been embroiled in a dispute over the land where the incident took place.
