They say that the former serene and quiet neighbourhood has been turned into a messy commercial zone. Accuse kanjo of approving uncontrolled commercial developments. Fire station land and other public lands also grabbed. Eti the US embassy also took land meant for their primary and secondary school and put up the embassy (watch at 6.42 kwa findeo). The residents are now crying "serkal saidia".

Well look at Kenya, people want to live in Muthaiga like areas without conserving the things that make Muthiga that,
1- is trees and greenery, but for most kenyans greenery is gichagi tings, so when you get your 1 acre in karen the first thing is you cut all the trees and pave the whole acre.
2- when you get your 1/4 acre in runda you want to add a chicken house and you wonder why there is no mama kibanda outside your gate.
3- After some time you wonder why anyone should stop you from doing bedsitters on the land you own outright.
4-The county called for a rezoning public participation around 2011, I can tell you very few people were there, lavington, gigiri, and karen were rezoned allowing multi dwellings, in an acre, this meant the earlier huge chunks could be subdivided in 1/8 ths.
At the moment the super rich in Nairobi only have old muthaiga, a small part of karen, very few serene places left, same with Mombasa the people invaded Nyali and Kizingo with highrise apartments, the rich moved to vipingo ridge and the destructive kenyans followed with the vipingo city right at the door step, and of course what they have done first is cut the beautiful trees that lined the access road to vipingo ridge.

How have cities like london, paris, geneva, los angeles etc managed to maintain their exclusive residential estates for centuries? Seems in Nairobi every nice neighbourhood is being torn down and redeveloped degrading it from an exclusive high income one to middle income one full of flats/apartments and commercial buildings. Sad that in 20yrs time there will be no high income residential estates remaining maybe huko tatu city, thika greens golf estate or northlands.....or dustbowl. The city is being degraded from buru buru to south C to gigiri. One would have thought that with more millionaires being created, more upmarket neighbourhoods would have been created to accommodate the newly rich but alas, we are heading in the opposite direction.