Getting good housing in Kenyan towns, among them Nakuru, these days can be a real struggle.
In fact, it is a near impossibility. If it is not avaricious agents keen on exploiting you, then it is located in a very inconvenient place.
However, time and again Kenyan tenants have showed no plans to vacate no matter how risky or bad the state of the house in question is.
Just a week ago, a six-storeyed building in Nairobi's Huruma estate collapsed after heavy rains leaving in its wake a trail of death and destruction.
Rescue operations are ongoing, and more than 30 people lost their lives in the tragedy..
Reports have it that the tenants had been warned of the lurking danger, as the building had been condemned by the authorities, but they never heeded!
Reason, they had paid their deposit fees -water and electricity inclusive- and were not ready to forfeit.
So it is clear that the deposit issue is what keeps Kenyan tenants rooted to dangerous houses.