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FILE | NATION. This file photo shows a bulldozer demolish part of the Central Police Station wall where a road extension was expected to pass.
Two blocks of flats intended to house officers at Central Police Station in Nairobi are being pulled down to make way for the expansion of University Way.
Their construction ended last year at a cost of Sh16 million each. On Sunday, masons demolished the flats, carefully removing stone after stone. The two flats were almost ready for occupation.
A Kenya Urban Roads Authority official earlier told the Nation that the Internal Security ministry had been warned of the road construction as the flats were being put up, but ignored the warnings.
However, Internal Security permanent secretary Francis Kimemia said: “Unless the survey was done wrongly, we were not aware (at the time of building), and there is a title deed for that land, which should indicate its size and location.”
Four blocks at the police station are occupied and the PS said the ministry would rent houses for officers who would have moved into the blocks being demolished.
Each of the four-storey blocks has 16 self-contained two-bedroom houses. The expansion of the road has begun with the excavation of the adjacent slip road, to be linked to Murang’a Road through a flyover at the Globe Roundabout.
More police houses at Kasarani Police Station will be pulled down to make way for the expansion of Thika Road into an eight-lane highway.
