Among the basic rights of any individual is the right to proper housing.

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However, residents of Mwanzo in Uasin Gishu County are living in shacks many years after Kenya achieved internal rule.

To make matters worse the occupants must part with a few coins at the end of the month as rent.

"We have complained over leaking roofs, falling walls but all they seem to care is money," one tenant said of the owners.