Kenya: Court orders eviction of squatters

The High Court in Kenya has ordered the eviction of more than 700 families, which have been living on a privately-owned piece of land in Nairobi's Embakasi area. Justice J. B. Ojwang ordered the Nairobi Provincial Commissioner, to evict the squatters from the land owned by Orbit Chemical Industries Limited. The court also quashed an order issued by Justice Gideon Mbito on August 29, 1996, barring the company from evicting the squatters. The court said the leave to commence judicial review proceedings in those circumstances was an abuse of the judicial process.