The ongoing nationwide vetting by the National Construction Authority (NCA) on buildings that have not adhered to statutory and regulatory requirements has sent shivers down the spines of most Nakuru investors.
The investors fear that their property worth millions of shillings risk demolition, as the NCA prepares to bring down all unproved buildings.
Speaking on Friday to our reporter at Nakuru Town, the worried investors blamed developers who took advantage of lax enforcement by the defunct Nakuru Municipal Council to flout the rules.
James Kariuki, a real-estate investor based in Nakuru said buildings that risk demolition include buildings on road reserves and railway lines.
Gerald Mwangi, a Nakuru contractor observed that other buildings targeted are at the CBD, which have flouted construction rules.
“The regulations require all buildings above four floors to have lifts and a number of buildings at CBD have breached this rule,” said Mwangi.
He said tenants living in buildings under construction oblivious of the danger that lurks are also targeted.
NCA has a vetting committee comprising urban planners, legal officers and architects have been visiting major towns in the country, vetting buildings which have not met the requirements of the board.
The vetting on buildings has come in the wake of public outcry over unproved structures that have in the past been blamed for death of innocent lives, after a number of buildings under construction have caved in.