• The list, released by chief executive Daniel Manduku, comes a week after the collapse of a six-storey building in Huruma.
• Five suspects linked to the Huruma building appeared in court on Wednesday and were released on Sh1 million bond each.
The National Construction Authority yesterday released a list of 204 unsafe residential buildings that will be demolished starting today.
The list, released by chief executive Daniel Manduku, comes a week after the collapse of a six-storey building in Huruma.
The death toll stands at 35. Search teams are still at the site.
The buildings to be demolished are in Dagoretti, Umoja, Thika Road, South B, Zimmerman and Huruma.
Huruma has the highest number of condemned buildings at 58, followed by Zimmerman with 28.
In South B, 19 houses on Hazina Estate, owned by the National Social Security Fund managers, are also said to be at risk of demolition.
Kennedy Mutysia, a landlord whose property in South B has been earmarked for demolition, told the Star the authority inspected the building last year but did not issue a demolition notice.
NOT GIVEN NOTICE
“Yes, I have a building in South B. But I have not received any communication from the authority. I think they should have communicated to me officially, otherwise, I am reading some malice in this,” he said.
Another developer, Julius Mbugua, who owns a block of flats in Dagoretti, said his property has never been inspected by the NCA since he constructed it more than a year ago.
Huruma landlord Joyce Muthoni said: “NCA inspected my building last year but it was not marked as unsafe. I am surprised because they have not communicated with me.”
Rescue workers said hopes of finding more survivors in the Huruma rubble are dwindling.
DEVELOPERS OUT ON BOND
Five suspects linked to the Huruma building appeared in court on Wednesday and were released on Sh1 million bond each.
Brothers Samuel Kamau and Henry Muiruri; and city staff Crispus Ndinyo, Justus Kathenge and Seline Ogallo were not charged.
The brothers are the suspected owners of the building.
In 2015, the NCA, charged with regulation and coordination of the construction sector, blamed the rampant collapse of buildings on lack of coordination among regulatory bodies that oversee different segments of the sector.
Other regulators include the Engineers Board of Kenya and the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors.
The 47 county governments are also involved in the approval and issuing of physical planning permits to contractors.
Cases of building collapsing while still under construction have been rife in recent years.
A pregnant woman was rescued yesterday morning from the Huruma building, six days after its collapse.
On Tuesday, a one-and-a-half-year-old baby was found on the first floor.
Several buildings collapsed last year and President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered an audit.
It covered Eastlands, Dagoretti, Kasarani, Zimmerman, Roysambu, Githurai, Garden Estate, Thome, and Kilimani.
The report concluded that buildings collapse because of poor quality of concrete, lack of proper foundation and use of substandard building stones.