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Simmers Bar demolished overnight in shocking twist – PHOTOS


The once popular Simmers Restaurant in Nairobi’s city centre is no more.

A demolition squad descended on the property in the middle of the night and flattened it.

This was just hours after a contingent of police stormed and removed furniture and everything stocked at the popular bar.

PHOTO | COURTESY
PHOTO | COURTESY

Simmers Bar was once described by a travel and restaurant website Tripadvisor as a place not to take your girlfriend to, it’s rather a place to take a girlfriend from.

The owner, former Kimilili MP Suleiman Murunga is engaged in a fight for the plot with the family of former Finance minister Arthur Magugu, which says it co-owns the property with Nilestar Holdings Limited.

The restaurant has also been facing problems with the county government over land rates.

PHOTO | COURTESY
PHOTO | COURTESY

In May 2014, county government officials pounced on the restaurant to attach Sh1.1 million in land rates owed to City Hall.

A year later, the county government was at the establishment again, this time demanding Sh12 million in arrears.