Home buyers face loss as Athi River houses declared unsafe

National Buildings Inspectorate secretary Moses Nyakiongora speaks to the press on the sidelines of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) Annual Convention in November last year. PHOTO | FILE

More than 200 home buyers in a Nairobi middle class estate are facing huge losses after a State agency declared their houses as unfit for human habitation, citing shoddy construction work.

The National Buildings Inspectorate (NBI) declared the 240 houses in Athi River’s Everest Park Apartments phase I, valued at Sh912 million, structurally unfit for occupation after it was called in to assess their fitness.

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