The National Construction Authority (NCA) and the Nairobi County government have ordered the tenants of a four-storey building in Mirema, Roysambu, to vacate after the structure developed cracks.
On Monday, NCA marked the house and asked the residents to vacate to avert the impending danger of the building caving in.
According to a Nairobi County Government notice to tenants, the building has been deemed dangerous and an illegal development.
Several lorries and pick-up trucks are seen lined up and ready to transport goods out of the structure in a video shared on social media.
In the notice, Nairobi County’s director of planning and development described the structure as “illegal development i.e. illegal construction of a structure upto 5 levels and occupation of the same ruinous and dangerous building.”
He also sent an enforcement notice requesting the “immediate removal of the development.”
The building has a medical center on the ground floor and four floors of tenant housing.
The evacuation was carried out as a precaution in light of the country’s increasing number of building collapses, three of which have been reported this month.
