Governor Dr. Kimani Wamatangi has commissioned an audit of all residential and commercial buildings across the county, both complete and those under construction, to examine structural integrity.
This is to address the continuous collapsing of buildings leading to deaths, in what has been attributed to poor workmanship as a result of failure by the county government to enforce compliance and corruption.
The exercise dubbed “Rapid Response Initiative on building approval compliance and enforcement” spearheaded by Lands and Planning County Executive Committee Member Salome Muthoni is to ensure developers obtain the requisite approvals, including occupational certificates.
The audit, being done in collaboration with the national government, will culminate in the developers getting an opportunity to regularise approvals and certificates where the buildings will be marked as safe by experts, and hazardous ones brought down, and owners paraded in court.
Preliminary investigations have established that about 80 percent of recently constructed buildings, including those occupied, have been constructed without approvals and developers doing construction against the approved plans, and some of them are already in a precarious state.
