Kenya: Collapsed building highlights crumbling regulation
02.02.2006
As the chances of finding more survivors in the building that collapsed earlier this week in Nairobi moved from slim to remote, poor oversight and corruption were being blamed for the disaster. "It is not just a problem of a collapsed building. It is a much wider problem of a lack of capacity to handle the huge construction industry," said Abonyo Erastus, vice chairman of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK), adding that the Nairobi City Council (NCC) had too few architects on staff to maintain building standards in the Kenyan capital.