Tenants Ordered to Vacate Grafion Apartments in Ruaka After Car Park, Wall Cave in

The National Construction Authority (NCA) has ordered tenants of Grafion Apartments in Ruaka to vacate the building with immediate effect.

This comes after the apartment's perimeter wall and a sector of the parking lot caved in following heavy downpour on Tuesday night.

A huge foundation dug up in an ongoing construction site in the adjacent plot is said to have weakened the wall, making it easy for the rain to sweep it away. The developer allegedly failed to put proper reinforcements.

Five tenants had their vehicles damaged when the wall and the parking space caved in.

A tenant who spoke to journalists says the incident happened at around 2 am following heavy rains.

“We heard a loud sound like thunder and immediately, our security guards started knocking on our doors telling us that part of the perimeter wall had collapsed and part of the parking had caved in,” he explains.

The Nairobi News reports that an NCA official has attributed the collapse of the wall to an ‘engineering mistake.’

NCA has also stopped the ongoing construction works to ensure structural and engineering gaps are addressed.