The 26 - year - old lives alone in the single room.
Mwanzia was carrying two plastic bottles of 500 ml each on his left hands when he arrived with a phone whose light he used to maneuver in the dark on his right hand.
"I had just bought paraffin and some cooking oil ready to prepare supper once I get home. But, to my surprise, there is no home to get to, leave a lone food to be cooked using paraffin and cooking oil. I don't know what to do," he said.
The victim works in construction cites within Athi River Town as a casual where he says phones ain't aloud during working hours.
"I wasn't informed of the incident. We don't get to work with phones, I found four missed calls from my neighbours though but were unreachable when I tried calling them back."
He had lived in the burnt house only for three months.
Another resident Nichodemus Makau 22, wasn't also aware of the incident until he arrived home.
He works at a local cement manufacturing company within the town.
"I have just returned now, I have lost everything," Makau said.
The victims lost several items including bedding, clothing, cookery, utensils, furniture, food, school uniform, money, personal documents and electronics.
Another resident Joyce Mbingu 39, sought refuge in an abandoned single mabati structure just next to where their houses had been razed.
Together with her four little children seated on the floor, Mbingu was preparing supper when the Star visited her on Friday night.
"I am one of the victims in the Bondeni slum fire. I have lost everything including books and school uniforms, I wonder whether my children will go to school, " Mbingu told the Star.
"I have been given cooking flour by a well wisher to cook for my children before I think of the next move."
The incident happened when she was out of the house fetching water and only managed to rescue her children.
The single mother said she didn't know what to do. He children are aged between one year, ten months and eighteen.
