The government has ordered a national crackdown on substandard contractors who put up shoddy structures that end up collapsing, resulting to loss of lives and massive damage of property.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki while speaking during the grand opening of a new primary school at the GSU Camp in Kiambu county, directed the immediate involvement of spy agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS) in crackdown against rogue contractors and developers in the country.
Kindiki concurred that the government will take action on builders and contractors whose houses are found to be faulty noting that the state will deploy proactive measures to avert a possible crisis in the construction sector.
“We will not allow our people to die or to be hurt for the government to move in here and start crying with the citizenry. For this reason, we have declared a war on contractors and builders who are defying government procedures in the construction industry by putting up buildings illegally and in a manner that is posing danger to people and dwellers therein,” CS Kindiki confirmed.
Kindiki observed that some of the contractors were using architectural designs and approvals of different locations to construct and erect the illegal buildings.
The CS likened the contractors to banditry killings in the north rift as he said that President William Ruto had ordered the national security officers to work with their county counterparts for better service delivery.
“We requested county government must work with the national government. The work of our security agencies is to ensure that our country is safe and they should not be involved in political matters,” added CS Kindiki.
Additionally, the CS directed a crackdown to smoke out illegal foreigners in the country as he called on security officers to collaborate with the public especially in Kiambu which hosted individuals posing as businessmen in Nairobi county.
“Some of illegal foreigners living here are terrorists so I have asked security officers, to work with the public to look for all those foreigners who are illegally into the country since they might be planning dangerous deeds to our country,” said Kindiki.
The move came after Kiambu governor Kimani Wamatangi directed the disbanding of a technical committee responsible for approving the construction of buildings on November 2022 after two buildings collapsed claiming lives, prompting an audit on all buildings under construction in the county.
