Family of man killed in Karen building collapse demands justice

Injured workers at the scene where a building collapsed in Karen, Nairobi on January 10, 2026. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

On January 10, 2026, Raphael Mwandikwa, 40, left his home in Zimmerman estate to Karen early in the morning, a construction site where he was working as a carpenter.

That day, he was supposed to return home around 2 pm as he had promised his wife, but this was never to be. “At 2:50 pm, I got anxious and wanted to find out why he had not returned as usual. When I called, he was not picking and I started feeling uneasy," his wife, Lydia, told The Standard.

Mwandikwa was among two workers who died after a building under construction collapsed in Karen Ward, Lang'ata Sub-County.