Umoja Estate has fallen, this doesn’t mean that it was ever great, though it started great, the trajectory has been a downward spiral.
“Umoja Innercore lost 3 cars between October & November 2020 at the parking. In December same year, thugs broke into an electronics shop opposite Rosslyn academy while along Manyanja road, a few metres from the Chief’s office same month, thugs managed to snatch a pistol from a policeman. Security is wanting! Building numerous police posts ain’t a solution to insecurity! Proper leadership will bring sanity”, a Umoja Estate resident Kamlago Kwach Koga wrote on the Facebook group Umoja, Innercore n Tena.
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Snippets of lost glory
In a span of a few years, demand for housing blocks in the area has led to rapid sprouting of housing flats. Any available land was converted into a housing block five or six storeys high, leading to its rapid deterioration.
The influx of people moving to the area to occupy the cheaper rental spaces slowly changed Umoja from its state of glory to a state of devastation.
