Rising balcony accidents shine the spotlight on building code enforcement

An apartment with an open balcony in Pipeline Estate in Nairobi on November 23, 2020. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG

On Saturday, November 7, 2020, baby Kai Kenton Omukubi was laid to rest at his parents’ rural home in Nyambuga village near Yala township, Siaya County, hardly a fortnight after a tragic fall from the balcony of flat in Lang’ata Estate, Nairobi.

Barely a year ago, another unidentified child was killed after falling off the balcony of a building within the National Housing Corporation (NHC) Estate in Lang’ata.

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