Built to Break: Nairobi's Collapsing Buildings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2019
- Kenya is enjoying a moment of relative calm. But, for how long? Every once in a while, the country is nudged back to the reality of the dangers posed by numerous residential blocks in urban centres, the most affected being the capital, Nairobi. In the third episode of #UncensoredMtaani, we shed a light on the ticking time bomb that is the country's apparent ill-planned urban centres and dubious structure approvals.
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I consider this one of the saddest things kenya has ever experienced, I personally felt so sad even before realizing a colleague broke his both legs from this
its not the first building to come down by itself,so it not the worst.Ask corrupt citizens why it is happening.
The problem is the people are not united to fight these unscrupulous businessmen that value no one apart from their own wealth.
the price of corruption😢😢
People are becoming greedy everyday in Nairobi
I don't care how bad the infrastructure is in Kenya, Africa is the MOTHERLAND. I want to step foot on it's soil and interact with the BEAUTIFUL people of Kenya and ALL of Africa.🇰🇪🇧🇼🇰🇳🇳🇬🇿🇦🇹🇿🇬🇭🇦🇴
I just wish people in the US realize how lucky we are to live here, where there is building codes and rules so they dont collapse
We have building codes problem.is some officials are given money to not inspect simple.
Corruption.is the issue
but your houses are built like chicken coups. I am happy to be a Kenyan
The quality of this piece. Good job John and your team.
Very well put together. Excellent piece!
ur work is above bar , enda vice sasa..kudos Allan
Edwin Bisesere imagine viceland Ke
vice iko na propaganda mingi.
Edwin Bisesere True dat! Huyu atapata kazi kwa raisi sana na Vice, Unreported World, Real Stories, n.k. His work’s record is top!
Par*
This is is Kenya’s vice
Keep up the good work John
There are no innovative ideas to solve problems like these. Singapore solved its housing crisis in the 1960s when it was still 3rd world country and now has the highest house ownership on the planet. The solutions to the corruption, poverty, death, illiteracy e.t.c are there but I am 100% certain that if someone tried to solve them, these same "victims" would fight them tooth and nail.
SINGAPORE IS IN ASIA..
Good work. Keep them coming.
Unfortunately, the media fails to interview an engineer when his expert opinion is needed. Whenever a structure collapses, it is not solely the government's fault. The contractors/developers are the actual culprits. They should depend on safely designed structures, and this is to be done by an engineer! But more critical is the lack of appreciation for engineering services by the contractor/developers and now the media.
it is the govt fault because they are the ones, with govt engineers, who look up the construction plans and inspect the final building for approval. but they'd rather accept a bahasha
SO NO ENGINEERS .
@@michaelheery7427 most of these building are not done by qualified engineers. The developer or client does not want cost, so they look for cheap guys like diploma ones to design for them, who have no experience or ample knowledge. or they use experienced fundis who have never stepped into any building engineering class to build the houses. government the approval issuer and enforcer of the regulations is very corrupt and does not ensure appropriate drawings and all pre-requisites are available before commencement of the construction. it is a corrupt nation with people in love of short cuts, while we qualified engineers are bypassed, struggling out here for jobs.
Great Documentary, great research excellent production.
I love Allan's documentaries they're always so we'll done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It's so sad loosing many people like that
Offlate u guys have been busy..big up the whole team
Woooow your work is amazing, I felt like am following something on vice😊
Well Told Story ACCURATE CONCLUSION.
Quality journalism right here.
It's very sad to see children's dies in this situation they didn't know anything . Ooohhh sad they die my fellow Kenyans
The builders should be prosecuted. How sad
Love the video
I hope that we shall find the will to bring down all the buildings that haven't met the required standards in Nairobi. Growing up in Nai in the 80's one would admire the order that was there back then. Places like Donholm, Umoja, Dandora and Huruma had so much order that couldn't be rivalled by any other city in East Africa. Sadly, times have changed and these once fancy estates have transformed into concrete dens that have no plan whatsoever and owners of these houses are powerful cartels that care for nothing but money. The Moi government blessed the sale of NCC houses and not even Kibaki addressed this thorny issue. Innocent Kenyans are dying coz they've got no where else to live...after all, someone has approved these buildings to be safe for human habitation. The only solution is to bring down all these buildings and stick to the original plan of Nairobi...woe unto us the day when we shall have an earth tremor (not an earth quake) in Nairobi coz 80% of residential buildings will be brought down. Thanks Allan Namu for posting this.
Oh God this really breaks my heart 😔
Sad this breaks my heart😭😭
Mr. Allan I have been following your documentaries so closely, it's among my wishes and I have all hopes that one day I will work with you. It's always my passion to develop such stories and enlightening the society... God bless you Mr.Allan..
How far are you with your goal now Mr Dennis?
Some guy said a very important point. When you have land in those low income areas you build cheaply coz the rent is just too cheap. Sad. We need social housing for the low income gap.
it's all about ignorance and greediness people should stop this as a kenyan its so embarrassing instead of embracing
As a professional in the construction sector, and Kenya having a housing deficit, the Ministry of Public works in collaboration with the counties need to work on bringing down the cost of construction approvals which many developers evade. this high costs dissuade developers from following procedure, and when a building collapses, the same government and counties has to spend on rescue efforts and hospital bills, even with bad publicity
We don’t know the real number of people who died but naona ni wengi aki
Ooooh my God
Life Kenya ni hardest. But tutamake
we should link up
Poor people suffer though 😢😔😔😥😢
Can't afford rent....can't afford clothes.....can't afford FOOD................
I know......let's raise a child in this hell hole :)
...........................I truly feel for them....I do....but what the fuck does it take for someone to realize....."Hmmmmm....maybe I'm not in the best place right now to have a fucking child"
That's selfish to me...and irresponsible....
People are just ignorant kej =a ya mabati ni 3k and my first house used to be 4k a well built single room
God have mercy
The Government should come up with a housing project
the root of the problem are the engineers, foremen entrusted with the responisility of doing it right they know they are building a future hazard and still continue...
This is the Kenya we have....tragedy of massive proportions
Unite and stop this
i have never seen the essence of 3 or more concrete floors.
wood for 3 floors
When the government has shown no interest in helping the poor the citizens must take personal responsibility for their own safety.
So a normal enginer, QS, ConMan and all practitioners involved let this happen? This should be charged in court as murder! Nothing less.
Usually, there are no professionals involved in the building of these structures.
It's just the property owners building cheap to cut down on costs at the expense of proper Engineering, bill of quantities.. Etc
Ignorant citizens n corrupt government why x be put n not be demolished n to the owners why can't they adhere to what they are told
Who is to blame
The problem with us Kenyans is ignorance
Billions just keep disappearing,. No convictions from the judiciary... Utiaji wazee wataacha lini?
What an embarrassment, that place looks like shit .
FILTH OF THE PLACE
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Weeh....
Ignorance is a very bad disease.
Did the chiness build theses buildings.
I really hate our leaders ...
Tamaka Ni ngoma cia adu! Ta #ithewaNgina njohi nio ahotaga! Makoma ma adu piu
Kenya, Kenya, Kenya. Sure our elected leaders and government officials truly don’t care for us. If only these guys(the so called land makachietha) had to pay heavily for the lives lost, to where they were totally out business never to recover again, and on top of it, jail time. Then and only then will these money hungry, good for nothing landlords learn their lessons.
Na ujinga jameni, why waste material on so many floors only to loose the building later, and be a murderer too, having taken that many lives. Build low, with strong foundation and permanent!
And Kenyans, let’s stop being ignorant! We’ve all seen these and learnt our lesson. Many living in these buildings seem to have enough education to stop entertaining such nonsense!!!
Wacha ziendele ku collapse
And what about the poor lives living inside?
Are you heartless
As long as Kikuyu is the president that's all that matters . Thank God a luo or another tribe is not president , otherwise we would have blamed them and they would have had to resign....example we know this building was built by useless tribes not Kikuyu.
Carolyne Musolo this kind of tribalism needs to end you think people from outside of Kenya and America know the difference between kikuyu and luo all the see is Kenyan. All the corruption that’s going on in your country is your responsibility as a people. A house divided can not stand
@@friunge yeah i blame kenyans too.its our responsibility to be one,but we have decided to follow the greedy leaders,and forget that we can only be strong when we are one.
Truly ignorance and hatred is a bliss. This is not a tribalism issue. It’s a corruption and ignorance issue. Stop voting based on tribal lines, supporting corrupt individuals and spewing tribalism/ hatred language.
President ndio ameangusha nyumba kwanini unaogopa kufikiria
I was being sarcastic coz I know that's how Kikuyu think always....they don't believe other Kenyans are humans at all but just them.