Landlord Kills Tenant Over Kshs. 2,500 Rent Arrears

Kawangware landlord in Nairobi on Wednesday morning killed a tenant over rent arrears of Kshs. 2500 before the residents reduced his semi-permanent houses to ashes

The landlord stabbed to death his tenant who was identified as Warren Jirongo aged 26 leading to the house of the landlord being touched

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The angry residents stormed the compound of the semi-permanent houses owned by the landlord burning the structures to ashes for the arrears of January rent

According to the residents, Jirongo was an orphan who was working as a garbage collector in the slums

The populace described the late as a hardworking young man who always struggled to make his ends meet

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KDRTV has authenticated that the police has launched a probe to know the whereabouts of the landlord who the locals identified as Nganga Gitau