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Why other counties need to learn from Nairobi’s mistakes

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself, or so goes a popular maxim. Here is where counties that are now just picking up need to look at the major urban centres and learn from their mistakes.

Gaps or weaknesses in building regulations and monitoring have been blamed for the high number of structures coming up without the necessary approvals. The biggest number of such unregulated structures can, naturally, be found in Nairobi. It is, however, important not to blame the construction boom of the last decade for the hole we find ourselves in as a nation. Many of these came up over the last century.

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