• According to Raila, the incident should worry both ordinary Kenyans and the government.
• Two police officers from Spring Valley police station are guarding the home, restricting entry.
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Raila Odinga has said the auctioneers that descended on the Westland family should pay for the damages caused and held accountable.
Speaking in Egypt on Thursday, the ODM leader said the auctioneers should reconstruct the house and compensate the owner for the inconvenience.
"For a start, the gang that descended on the Westlands home must be made to pay by reconstructing the house and compensating the owner for the damages and the inconvenience," he said.
According to Raila, the incident should worry both ordinary Kenyans and the government.
"We may be witnessing a quick return of the old practice where individuals with political patronage use their proximity to power to harass innocent citizens and foreigners and take their property," he said.
"A general sense of lawlessness is taking shape. Our security appears to have deteriorated overnight, with widespread incidents of daylight crimes, making families lose their loved ones to thugs in broad daylight, particularly in Nairobi."
Raila said lawlessness and impunity seem to be finding their way back into Kenyans life, targeting not just individuals but also property in a manner witnessed in a previous era that Kenyans had hoped was gone forever.
The family of Niraj and Avani Shah was evicted from their home along School Lane on Friday by an auctioneer.
Niraj said he was still in shock at the sight of the rubble which has been his family's home since 1978
"This was my childhood home. I have lived here all my life, since I was six-years-old and now I don't know what I'm going to do," he said.
Police officers were on Wednesday deployed to guard the premises in Westlands. Two officers from Spring Valley police station are guarding the home, restricting entry into it.
Operations on the premises have also ceased and relative calm has been restored at the home after the November 4, events.
The auctioneer who evicted Avani and her family from the home they have lived in for 46 years was arrested on Tuesday by DCI officers.