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Another Building Under Construction Collapses In Kinoo

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Another residential building under construction in Kinoo on Saturday night nearly collapsed causing panic among residents.

According to the tenants in adjacent houses, the four-storey building tilted Saturday night towards a nearby flat.

The unoccupied building is resting dangerously on an adjacent six storeyed apartment after its pillars began to buckle at 11.30 pm.

The tilt.

Police arrived immediately and evacuated the nearby tenants who spent the night in the cold fearing the building may collapse anytime. No one was injured.

“We are all in panic as we don’t know what will happen next. As much as we need to get our belongings from the house, it is risky as the building might fall anytime,” said one of the tenants.

The incident comes just five months after two buildings came down in Kiambu killing three people.

The Kiambu County inspectorate officers immediately embarked on a crackdown to avert the reoccurrence of similar cases.

Nairobi and Kiambu among other regions are experiencing a construction boom with most buildings going more than six floors.

There are fears some of these structures are being constructed without proper supervision.

A task force was constituted to inspect and approve the construction of buildings in the area.

Many have put blames of buildings collapsing on shoddy contractors, poor and cheap materials, corrupted county officials who approve substandard structures on dangerous grounds to be erected.

Signboard detailing the Kinoo building players.

The project is owned by Mayten Limited, the architect for the building is Petacon Designs, and contractors Wakefield Engineering and Construction Limited.

In the past, many buildings erected on mostly riparian grounds have led to preventable deaths and it’s by sheer luck that the Kinoo incident didn’t have casualties largely because the building was incomplete and was completely unoccupied and happened in the dead of the night.

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