Residents vacate cracked, sinking storey building in Kasarani
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.
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