President Uhuru Kenyatta should disband the National Construction Authority

President Uhuru Kenyatta should disband the National Construction Authority (NCA), and order immediate demolition of all substandard houses in Kenya to avoid more deaths.

Sometimes back, NCA presented an audit report that indicated that over 60 per cent of buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation yet no action has been taken.

NCA has failed to enforce the existing physical planning and building laws and regulations. It has also failed to identify, review the impediments to the current building regulations, legal and institutional arrangements in the building and construction industry and to propose an institutional framework for achievement of sustainable, well-planned, safe and healthy built environment.