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Thousands of residents in the city have been rendered homeless after the Nairobi county government on Wednesday morning began demolition of condemned buildings in Nairobi’s Zimmerman estate.
Governor Mike Sonko's administration says the exercise will be extended to other estates in Nairobi on Thursday, resulting in more than 1,000 unsafe buildings being flattened.
Sonko says the demolition is aimed at averting disasters as witnessed last week in Ruai estate, where a four-story structure collapsed, killing two people. Two days earlier, another five-story building which was still under construction came down in Juja area.
"My administration in conjunction with other government agencies has enhanced the demolition of condemned buildings in Nairobi," Sonko said on Wednesday.
He added: "As promised all sub-standard buildings earmarked for demolition in the city will be brought down to avert disasters as recently witnessed in Ruai."
“Today, the demolition exercise is happening in Zimmerman estate, Roysambu constituency. The exercise will be extended to other estates in Nairobi from tomorrow,” he added.
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this is what happens when contractors do shity jod in s shithole country.if cones to haunt them later.worst lives are lost.from contractors to inspectors who worked on this buildings shoyld ve held accountable. by that,imean heavy fines and some jail time for them.now what happens to those rendered homeless..are they on their own...?
Is this the usual Maxiley? I know you to be very calculative when you write your comments. Siku hizi punctuations, grammar na sense hamna. Just asking?
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The owners of this buildings should be held accountable, sometimes they know there is a problem and bribe somebody so they can continue with the job.
This is something that is totally avoidable and yet it keeps happening in Kenya. There is a reason why buildings do not fall in first world countries. CORRUPTION. And the worst of all is the city council. The city officials demand bribes from contractors, who in turn kata corners during construction. Corrupt inspection officials are also bribed and do not even visits sites for inspections and unsafe buildings are approved as livable. The whole system is corrupt. And even when shit like this happens, the responsible people do not do time since they corrupt their way out. Unless the system is fixed, this will keep happening.
This are diaspora people about property in Kenya.They use their savings to compromise safety of struggling Kenyans.If you want to invest long term,quality should be your focus. Quit the greed.
@Fundi can u tell us what made Florida bridge fall coz u stated in 1st world it doesn’t happen??Ehen I lived in philly 2009 2 buildings came falling after construction was completed.In Kenya its tooo much thou.Pple have build in reparian lands,they build too fast,each slub is to b given 21-30 days to cure which doesn’t happen.Also they r supposed to start jailing the foreman city council n this shit will reduce.Otherwise Diaspora if u want to make good money build rentals utaokota sana n don’t charge tooo much.To me Wacha zikunje chini until pple know how to follow the sheria.
what have they being doing for all that time? This is something that could have been done long ago.