Patel was not spared......all the greenhouses have been swept clean.

For something to happen someone needs to do some leg work. One way of doing this is to follow the legal channels but it takes a lot of work. If there are real lawyers who care about justice this would be a perfect case.

Collect all media coverage of the events both print and digital.. I would even go further and collect all raw footage that never made it on air.

Send a few people to Solai to interview all people affected. Relatives who lost loved ones, people injured and in hospital, people who lost properties. Well written sworn affidavits.

Start collecting local information on everything about that dam. Contractors, engineers, interview everybody who ever worked on that dam or on the farm.

Go to any government office and all information from everyone who ever made any communication with the owners about the dam. There is talk that the owner was advised to legalise the dams but he ignored. All these correspondence from any government agency must be collected. All reports by the local people either to police or to whatever authority that made any reports should be collected.

When you have all this information you need to retreat for a very long time as you build your case. Wait until things have cooled down for even one year. When you have all your facts and a mountain of evidence look for Judge Odunga and start suing: you will be suing Patel and all government agencies involved.

The details may not be exactly as outlined above but the point is you can never make a case effectively without evidence. Kenyans are the laziest people when it comes to gathering evidence because it is a lot of work. If you do your homework and put in the hours there are judges in Kenya now who will be willing to hear you.

What is to legalize a dam? And why would you go to the high court in Machakos and not Nakuru?

The body that can approve or disapprove an existence of such a dam is Nema, if they approved knowing there are issues with it they and only they can be sued, otherwise even Patel is innocent, he was solving an environmental problem

Someone at the relevant ministry is sleeping on the job and my guess is as good as yours.

Even the Pipeline flame victims were never compensated. Hapa Kenya ni wewe na mungu wako, though Matiangi directive to controlled emptying of the other dams is in order, for regularization purposes