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Constant Cap retweeted
THE EASTLEIGH building collapse requires an independent inquiry away from the construction authorities and professional regulatory institutions if we want the truth. Otherwise it is going to be another ugly unending statistic in our long building collapses tragedies.
Wow
Not necessarily. On my site, I had the structural engineer on retainer to do inspections at all key stages. This was some idiot who is supposedly a lecturer at JKUAT and Dedan Kimathi.
The imbecile sent his students to do the site checks. It is actually the contractor who flagged this and told me to be there the next time. I was there.
When he found that I had caught him, he started screeching at the site about "errors" and whatever. There were no errors. He demanded that he be hired fulltime to stay on site to check every single day for 300k. So I fired him. He then reported the site to the county with fake allegations. I got him later. Years later the building is in excellent condition.
Listen, this is a very corrupt and mediocre country. There is no magic by which Engineers have escaped the same problems in every other sector.
Constant Cap retweeted
It is not right to blame the architect and engineer of the collapsed building. Clients take drawings and do construction without the consultants' supervision. That is the problem. Unaambia mtu site inspection ni 25k anaona hio ni simiti kadhaa, they don't call you to inspect.
Constant Cap retweeted
This was actually done by the National Building Inspectorate after the Huruma building collapse in 2013 and a damning report issued. It is just gathering dust….
Constant Cap retweeted
We are praying for all those workers trapped in the collapsed building in Eastleigh. The Red Cross is saying they are in communication with them. We hope there will be silver lining to this otherwise sad story.
Understandable.
It always feels better to be the one in control of the two wheels than depending on someone else, especially when you get a boda who thinks he can outsmart everyone.
Interesting approach.
Margaret Thatcher explained this perfectly back in 1983
The government doesn't have money of its own. Every time politicians promise to spend more, someone has to pay for it
And people somehow still think it's someone else's money
“There is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayers’ money”
And sooner or later, that someone else they expect to pay is YOU
Indeed.
An inevitable obstacle that prevents socialism from working aside from everything else is it hinges on being able to change human nature, which it can’t, and control it which it does until the revolution rises against a fat dysfunctional regime. Then out come the communist hats because they mean to control you or kill you. We keep trying to explain this to people before they’re trapped but are so well brainwashed no facts or evidence will change their minds.
Constant Cap retweeted
The Catholic Church operates 8,138 orphanages worldwide, according to the Vatican’s 2026 statistics, making the Catholic community the world’s largest provider of care and social welfare services.
Constant Cap retweeted
Four Catholic nuns of the Missionaries of Charity were brutally mur*dered by gunmen on March 4, 2016, in Aden, Yemen, while serving the elderly and vulnerable. The Pope honored them as “martyrs of charity.”
Constant Cap retweeted
The numbers at #Floodies yesterday were really impressive. Impala ongezeni volume ya floodlights lakini. See y’all again this coming weekend
Constant Cap retweeted
And for Elon to own assets in different disciplines and connect the dots like that is crazy.
