Owners of collapsed Huruma building and county officials remanded

Kenyan entrepreneurs Karanja and his brother Muiruri suspected owners of a six-storey building that collapsed in Huruma neighbourhood stand handcuffed in the dock at the Chief Magistrates Court in Nairobi Kenya

The owners of the building that collapsed in Huruma and three government officials were Tuesday arraigned in a Nairobi court to face charges over the death of more than 20 people.

However, the two brothers Samuel Karanja, Henry Karanja and National Construction Authority Director Chrispas Ndinyo, Director of Planning and Compliance at Nairobi County government Justus Kathenge and Mathare sub-county administrator Seline Ogallo did not plead to the charges.