Four-Story Building Under Construction Collapses in Kiambu

The National Construction Authority (NCA) has launched a probe after a four-story building collapsed in Kinoo, Kiambu County on Saturday night.

NCA Executive Director Maurice Akech says the agency is seeking to establish the circumstances that led to the fall of the building that was under construction.

The probe is being carried out by a multi-agency team comprising of NCA officials, the National Building Inspectorate, and the National Disaster Management Unit. 

“Efforts are underway to ensure safety of the adjacent building and the surrounding development is not affected,” said Akech, adding that the site has been cordoned off by police.

The building is leaning on an adjacent multi-storey building that had already been occupied, but tenants were evacuated safely.

Kikuyu sub-county police commander Catherine Ringera said no one was injured during the incident as workers at the site had already left when the building collapsed.

“The building collapsed at night and no deaths or injuries were reported because most of the construction workers who have been working on the building had left for home on Saturday,” Ringera told Nation.

This comes barely six months after three unfinished buildings collapsed in Kiambu in incidents that have put the county’s housing and physical planning department on the spot.

Five people were killed and over 10 others injured after a five-storey building under construction in Gachie caved in last August. The incidents prompted Kiambu Governor James Nyoro to form a task force to evaluate the structural status of buildings under construction within the county.