Prof Alfred Omenya, Urban Development Expert: There were hardly any building collapses in this country before 2010. One of the things that is clearly missing is the technical aspect of the buildings from a compliance point of view. You find a situation where officers come in, but they never check whether what is being built, from a technical point of view, especially structurally, is in line with what has been approved #CitizenMondayReport

Prof Alfred Omenya: The question we should be asking ourselves is: where are the regulators when illegal activities of that scale are happening in broad daylight? I spent quite some time last year in Huruma, and almost 100% of the construction that was going on there did not have approval, and nobody had stopped them. When I talked to the people, they said they can’t be stopped because the people who are meant to be stopping them own floors in those buildings #CitizenMondayReport

Prof Alfred Omenya: We also have this challenge where we have made this a planning and development control issue. Buildings don’t collapse because of development control. We have made this thing to be an income generation both formal and non-formal to the county, we have made it a planning issue. The question is: Are the buildings safe for human habitation? Buildings are collapsing because the engineering aspect is not followed through #CitizenMondayReport