(7 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 7 May 2024
1. Wide of police officer lobbing tear gas towards a slum area
2. Man walking in a flooded river valley as other people cover their noses from tear gas smoke
3. Various of an excavator demolishing structures
4. Police officers on the scene of demolitions
5. Woman fending off someone trying to steal her iron sheets
6. Various of people looking on
7. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Elizabeth Katana, Nairobi Resident:
"Ruto we voted for you because you said you will safeguard the poor, now are you helping the poor or you are actually finishing them off? If you plan to finish poor people in Kenya then just bomb us all and get it done with. You are finishing us (president) Ruto and you claim to be a man of God."
8. Various of excavator demolishing a structure as two men on top of a roof look on
9. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Jekenke Jegeke, Nairobi Resident:
"Now what are we going to do? We love our president and that is why we supported him. He should come to our aid because here we had no problem moving. We ask for urgent help to resettle people here who have nowhere to stay and nothing to eat."
10. Various drone shots of demolished area ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Kenya’s government continued forceful evictions and demolitions on Tuesday, in most of Nairobi’s informal settlement areas by the rivers.
Police lobbed tear gas canisters as most residents were caught unaware despite a 48-hour directive to move out of riparian zones by the president lapsing five days ago.
Anguished, many directed their pain to President William Ruto saying his government had failed them.
"Ruto we voted for because you said you will safeguard the poor, now are you helping the poor or you are actually finishing them," decried Elizabeth Katana.
As excavators and bulldozers pulled down structures, residents watched helplessly as others swooped in to grab iron sheets, timber and anything of value they could get their hands on.
Some met fierce resistance.
The Interior Ministry in a written statement said there are 164 people currently missing, with a total of 42,526 households that have been displaced, affecting over 210,000 people.
The Interior Ministry also said that they have begun setting up camps in various parts of the country to host those displaced by the flooding.
Kenya and other parts of East Africa have been overwhelmed by flooding.
Schools originally were to reopen this week, but the education ministry postponed that by a week.
Students will now wait for the announcement of new reopening dates as some schools remain flooded and others have been damaged.
Some displaced people have been living in schools while the government prepares to relocate them to camps.
The government has ordered people living near 178 dams and reservoirs that are either full or nearly full to evacuate or be forcefully moved.
Water levels at two major hydroelectric dams have reached historic highs and the government has warned those living downstream along the Tana River.
The government has been accused of an inadequate response to the floods.
The flooding has left more than 155 people dead in neighbouring Tanzania.
Hundreds of people have been affected in Burundi, Ethiopia and Somalia as well.
AP video by Jackson Njehia
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