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We should not lose more lives under collapsing buildings

The government stands indicted for each of the lives lost in the collapsed six-storey building in Tassia, Embakasi East, Nairobi. The officials who gave the building a clean bill of health, right from the architect, the owner and the contractor, have blood on their hands. The tenants, who even after the building had been marked as unsafe, went ahead and occupied it, are also not off the hook. Now, for how long will this continue?

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