Building standards must be adhered to

Building that collapsed in Huruma Estate, Nairobi {Photo Courtesy}

When news filtered in that innocent Kenyans had yet again lost their lives in a collapsed building in Nairobi’s Huruma estate, I was overcome with a sense of outrage on behalf of the victims.

These were men, women and children whose only mistake was to unknowingly reside in a substandard building, which should never have been constructed in the first place.