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Collapsing buildings: Tenants' role in fighting rogue developers

A building that collapsed in Tassia, Embakasi in a picture taken on November 09,2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

. On November 21, barely 24 hours after tenants had been ordered to evacuate, a five-storey building collapsed in Ruiru, Kiambu County.

Tenants had noticed cracks developing on the house which had initially been built to three floors, before the developer added two more floors.

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