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Blame the constitution...

The constitution did not build a house on a river. It did not tell Nema to give approvals for the building. It did not tell the Kanjo Kingdom to approve the building plan.

In fact when you allow yourself to see the truth, most of these buildings were built during the old constitution.

Do you remember Wangari Maathai being beaten up over Westgate and the Mall? Was she being teargassed because of the constitution?

I know a lot of you here get excited when people who are lawfully picketing are being teargassed, but tafadhali, think kidogo.

The law is the law. You just can't come and destroy my house at night after you have approved my building. It was a corrupt Kenyan who approved those buildings.

The Kenyan laws are not as liberal as those in the UK or the USA. But you don't see people building on rivers do you?

When people fail to do the right thing they look for the easiest person to blame. The constitution.

If you were honest, you should be demanding that those that approved those buildings be sent to jail. Ohh no, you won't. It's the constitution.

If I were the judge of course I'd order a stay order. After all, the complainant shall come with gov't approved papers that gave him the right to build the property on a river.

However, if the gov't arrested those that approved the properties and then went to court seeking to nullify the orders, no judge however corrupt would allow the case to drag on.

Let us not give mediocre people in our leadership an excuse. They should never have approved those buildings in the first place and they should be arrested.

Hii mambo ya consitution, ni uwongo tu.

The liberal laws in the USA as you may wish to call them have not allowed anyone to build on public land.

However in Kenya, a human being in the name of a government official, has taken a bribe and given fake title.

The problem is not the constitution. It is the people of Kenya.

When you think about it, the same complaining Kenyan is the same fellow who is going to shop in these places. How can you go shop at Nakumatt when you know they have a habit of renting property either in public land or land that is right smack on top of a river?

How do you go to shop at TMall, then come here and complain about "the constitution"?

Leave the constitution alone, start arresting the thugs who approved the buildings. Or are you afraid of being shot 7 times in the head?

How many beach hotels will remain standing?

some statement here luck the real substance of life in Toto. burj khallifa, twin towers amongst many other buildings across the globe are built right in the middle of water masses. just because I do not have scales and gills does not declare me persona non granta by a river. and for any ones info 30m meters into my land my foot. am off to get m### to enhance my natural rights to my properties. so be warned coz am ceding nothing. not an inch. yes.

Thank you @alma1. I am at a loss why @Maich and some otherwise intelligent Wazuans keep ducking the real issue, as they struggle looking for extraneous stuff to blame like the constitution, opposition, etc

@iris - This was my second contribution. Post #11.

Go read post #18 also. I am tired of quoting myself!! This is a two page thread so far. I don't understand how you missed all those posts. And we have already concluded you are not blind!!!

am not trying to trivialise issues here @maichblack, but then the river should not keep eating into my land since Nema is simply busy pocketing unaware of my predicament. human fundamental rights to land and river can not be sacrificed in the name of an amorphous word called 30m riparian. an absolute title confers to the owner rights to till, plant, harvest in it and a dwelling place. how else would you realise your rights if curtailed. lands ministry should desist demarcating such lands in the first place. shoddily built houses will collapse wherever built, even titanic did sink for that terrible design error of commission. Good luck as you hire your small brains engineer or whatever the whuzie who can not tell you the difference between bending moments and jigrijigri bed ova bending moments is. /∆ and D.

If this is applied strictly the number of landless citizens in Kenya will increase by atleast 20%.