Wheels to curb collapse of buildings

Work at a construction site in Nairobi. (Photo: Standard)

An audit report ordered by President Uhuru Kenyatta after several buildings collapsed in Nairobi last year killing and maiming several victims singled out poor quality of concrete, lack of proper foundation and the use of substandard building stones as the principal causes.

That was only the tip of the iceberg in the lucrative but problem-laden construction sector where entrenched cartels collude with crooked urban, lands, administrative (chiefs and their assistants) and other authorities to defeat laid down rules to the detriment of innocent lives.