with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting vera i think i don't know whether you saw the photos taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door on the green of a golf course and there are golfers watching the destruction of these. holmes it really sums up doesn't it in the quality center of the. the keep better situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to have some and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should

week's streets debate our reporter either to money speaks with residents in nairobi slum districts kabera to gets to the heart of the issue. we are in nairobi kenya more specifically kibera it is infamously known as one of the biggest slums in africa and when you look at it it's easy to see why i mean people are packed into really small shacks in a really small area and it really goes to show how big the problem of housing in this country is and i want to begin with someone who actually lives here. he tells me his name means navy blue but you say living here is not so pleasant when you. everything is sounding a little depressing right now but where is the problem i mean you are in the construction business you made your work is to ensure that not only do we have housing but the proper house is always a problem all these years as we grew rapidly in africa we do need to our house and i mean right now we are talking nairobi alone meet two million houses for families like us they need two million that is already pending every year we need two hundred thousand we must be building but when we t

with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting vera i think i don't know whether you saw the photos taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door on the green of a golf course there are golfers watching the destruction of the. holmes it really sums up doesn't it the inequality center of the. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim unl

there is now really are perpetrators mixing with victims i'm going to bring in here our guest eric kabera who is a filmmaker. one of note i may say we've known him a long time you've witnessed events. eric what is going through your mind now you've just been watching part of the presentation on stage and it was a play wasn't it what went through your mind you look. i look yeah i was i was disturbed about you know it's not just like you momentarily think this is something that i've accumulated over the last twenty five years because of you know been working with the media and then making films or you know the fifty from one hundred days and countless of other documentaries where you talked about the church isn't survivor and trying to sort of like you know understand the magnitude of this particular plight of this particular genocide against the tutsi it's something that the mind cannot really easily process and it's if you know you really like you know shut down yourselves from from that particular reality but as a filmmaker as a think as a writer i think it plays in every every day and e

with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi. watching the destruction of these homes it really sums up doesn't it the inequality center of the. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which. protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim unless there is absolutely no viable alternative i have seen situations in thailand where in bangkok where the government wanted to build off ramp from a highway right into a community an informal settlement and the community rallied and managed to figure out a way that that off ramp could in fact come down and the community can remain intact these things are possible i may not want to

with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting there i think i don't know whether you saw the photo that was taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door on the green of a golf course and there are golfers watching the destruction of the. holmes it really sums up doesn't it the inequality center of the. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should

with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting vera i think i don't know whether you saw the photos taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door on the green of a golf course and there are golfers watching the destruction of these. it really sums up doesn't it in the quality center of the. the keep better situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim