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When President William Ruto laid a foundation stone for the construction of an affordable housing project. [PCS]

Wherever you journey around major urban centres, and beyond, you are met with an equal measure of the beautiful Tower of Babel type of buildings, and run-down walls of Jerusalem before they were rebuilt by Nehemiah kind of structures.

The menace of incomplete developments in the country is not new, with a sizeable number of these buildings being state-funded.

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