NEMA: A toothless bulldog without the will to tame irregular housing plans in Nairobi

KDF officers together with Red Cross workers comb through debris from a 6 story building that collapsed at Kasarani on Nov 15, 2022 killing three people. [Standard Photo]

Daniel Mwangi, in his 70s, is a religious man but the backyard of his house in Jamhuri Estate in Nairobi is a litter of cigarette butts and alcohol cans.

Mwangi, a pensioner, would not have this worldly menace in his sight were it not for his truant neighbours forced onto him by some corrupt county officials who approved an illegal high-rise building that has its balconies right inside his compound.