According to the National Building Inspectorate, about 1,000 occupied structures located throughout half of the nation are unfit for human habitation.
According to NBI Secretary Samuel Charagu, the inspectorate carried out checks in 26 counties and found that roughly 919 buildings, or 5% of them, are unsafe for habitation.
At the scene of a four-story building collapse that killed five construction workers in Murang’a town on Tuesday evening, Charagu made this statement.
He said that the inspectorate examined the structural integrity of 19,606 structures as part of the audit exercise, which will be conducted in all of the remaining counties.
As Irungu Kang’ata, the governor, was informed, “our role is to conduct a thorough audit of all buildings, and we will be coming to Murang’a to establish that occupied buildings are safe,” he stated.
A portion of the buildings under audit are either hazardous or fair, which means they can be fixed to meet criteria.The representative claimed that a multi-agency team conducts inspections and guarantees that unsafe buildings are evacuated.
We notify the police and the National Disaster Management Unit when we discover a building that shouldn’t be occupied so that the residents can be evacuated. That’s what we did in Mombasa and Ruiru a few weeks ago.
Investigations have started, according to National Construction Authority CEO Eng Maurice Akech, to determine what caused the building in Murang’a to fall.The building was on its last story, the fourth floor, when it fell, according to early investigations, Akech stated while expressing sympathy to the families of the victims.
He stated that NCA is eager to make sure that all building projects taking place in the nation comply with all legal standards to protect the safety of Kenyans.
