Residents vacate cracked, sinking storey building in Kasarani

The Star Kenya

Some residents at Kasarani in Nairobi on Tuesday vacated a building that was showing signs of collapsing.  The building had cracks and had started sinking. https://rb.gy/3l0to

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00:12 - They were constructing something.

00:36 They were a foundation.

00:38 They used machines to dig up the ground

00:41 just behind the buildings.

00:43 So during the day, there were trembles.

00:46 When we were inside the house,

00:47 there were trembles in the house.

00:49 So at 1 a.m. last night, 1 a.m.,

00:53 I heard, we heard shouts like,

00:54 to leave the building, it's cracking.

00:58 When we came down, the building had cracked in the middle,

01:02 like from the gate all through the end, it had cracked.

01:08 So we were told to evacuate.

01:09 The landlord came and told us, nothing is wrong.

01:12 We should just stay, nothing is wrong.

01:14 It's just a crack.

01:16 But when you look at it, it's not a crack.

01:19 So we were told to evacuate.

01:21 No, no, we were not told.

01:23 We just used the walker button

01:25 because nobody told us to.

01:27 So yeah, that's it.

01:28 The construction, the machines are the ones that caused it.

01:33 - So the landlord didn't say to stay?

01:35 - Yeah, he told us to stay.

01:37 - It was just a minor crack?

01:38 - Yeah.

01:39 He said, it's just a minor crack.

01:42 We should just stay.

01:43 And it's a crack all over.

01:46 - So now that this is something that came,

01:48 was out of your plan,

01:50 were you, how have you sorted yourself

01:54 in now moving to a new place?

01:55 I know it's very costly as well.

01:57 - We just begged, okay,

01:59 we just talked to one of the landlords here.

02:03 We told him we have an emergency.

02:07 And yeah, she let us in.

02:11 To put our things so that we can get sober.

02:14 - Thank you so much.

02:15 (static)

02:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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