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They include Sunvalley Phases One, Two and Three, KMA, Royal Park, Forest View and a number of apartments in the area. Two weeks ago, Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko threatened to demolish several estates in Lang’ata that he said sat on Ngong Forest land. One evening, they received the news that the land on which their house - and 200 others in this estate – stands was part of a 6,000-acre parcel hived off from Ngong Forest. Then this little world they had built around themselves was shaken to the core. Their house is still a work in progress, but the couple is happy to have a roof over their head. Here, he built a retirement home for himself and Esther, his wife of 53 years. Upon retirement, Watene would have happily settled in his Gatundu home were it not for the collapse of a textile industry that he and his wife had started and that would have guaranteed a smooth ride into their sunset years.Īs a result, he chose to invest his pension and personal savings on a small piece of land in what is now Langata Sunvalley 1 Estate.

In his heydays, he travelled around the world to negotiate with various financial institutions on behalf of the Government, his long-time employer, and where he rose to the level of an undersecretary at the National Treasury.

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