It’s a shame Kenyans remain as ill-prepared for disaster as ever

Many years ago, a building under construction collapsed in downtown Nairobi, and several casual workers were buried alive.
What followed was comical, if not tragic, but it was all in keeping Kenya’s ways of dealing with disasters — natural or man-made — and showed exactly how rescue operations are often mishandled.

I forget how many people died under the downtown Nairobi building, but I remember some foreign soldiers helping, nay, taking over the rescue operations, and days later declaring there were no more bodies under the rubble.