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A number of tenants of Grafions Apartments in Ruaka Estate, Kiambu County are counting losses after they found their cars sunk inside a construction site on Wednesday morning.
Part of the apartment's perimeter wall and parking lot caved in following a heavy downpour in the area on Tuesday.
The construction site, which is in between two occupied apartments, is believed to have caused the landslide.
The contractor is said to have dug deeper than the foundation of the wall, thus weakening it.
Photos taken from the scene show a number of damaged cars that were swept into the construction site.
The incident has forced some tenants to vacate the apartment over fears that the site might cause more damage.
Kenyans on social media have questioned how authorities allowed the developer to dig huge foundation next to the apartment blocks without proper reinforcements.
No injuries have been reported.
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Kenya engineering on the spot.
From an Engineering perspective:this is classified as natural calamity. The already build house seems to be on his land likewise as the new construction. If taken to caught no one is at fault since each person is entitled to build as he or wishes which determines the amount of digging to be done. In this case the rain played part in the land movement so for Those thinking poor reinforcement, do you mean the built up house was not well reinforced?, asmuch as I can see, the foundation pillars look deep enough since this soil can hold much weight. I do t see need of extra reinforcement
I have a friend who is an engineer that tried moving back to Kenya, after working as a civil engineer for 12 years, Kenya thought he “needed more training” and frustrated the guy, he moved back to the states, ona sasa, these fools cant even do the simple stuff, this is a job for a new grad, simple construction but greed spoils it all.
@status exactly!As u can see the negatives blacks kenyans wazungu diasporas have already started writing shit as they know best??That house standing has no issues at all.The guy who was digging anjenge zake dugged to close to the house standing so that engineer is to blame so sio kusema ati house standing imenjegwa vibaya.@ken i know things can be frustrating hapa home for folks who have decided to move but u don't give up easily so huyo jamaa yako he was probably hit by culture shock venye watu wengine wamendelea who he left then the only choice was to go back to diaspora where everybody is poor juu huko watu wote they do the same thing come january to december work work paybills paybills then work paybills yaani life ya mzunguko tu n owning anything or something will take your lifetime nahakuna kupimzika.
Haha, @mkenyahalisi, growing up in Kenya is one of the proudest moments of my life, however, it is a bit misleading that all Kenyans do is work. There’s a lot of successful Kenyans here that work hard and make a good living. Kenya should get serious especially about this Chinese problem, deals are being made and no Kenyans are benefitting while China dumps their excess population AKA Chinese chokora and sends them over to act like they own Africa.
Just admit that serikali ya kenya is composed of incompetent grifters for whom the idea of inspections of building sites probably implies an opportunity for graft. That can cause anyone (well, anyone who who has not received a deportation order or as I prefer to call it an eviction notice - Mkenya, it must hurt when a whole country tells you to pound sand) to head back to places where you bribery is not the only way to advance. Does the safety of your fellow wakenya mean nothing to you?
This is scaring. we need to be more serious in controlling how buildings are constructed in Kenya
Take note of your neighbor...