Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi has disbanded a technical committee responsible for approving the construction of buildings.
The move follows an incident on Thursday where a building under construction in the Ruaka area collapsed, killing a couple.
The building at Old Ruaka Road came down barely two months after a similar incident in Kirigiti near Kiambu town that left five people dead.
Wamatangi said a new committee will be established to address rising cases of buildings coming down in the county.
“We cannot go on like this. We must have a new team that properly does its work,” he said.
“We will properly vet people who authorize construction because the lives of people cannot be put at risk.”
The decision by Wamatangi come just a day after his Nairobi counterpart Johnson Sakaja re-constituted the Nairobi City County Urban Planning Technical Committee after a building under construction in Kasarani collapsed.
By Wednesday, three bodies had been retrieved in Kasarani. One person was pulled out of the rubble alive and rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Sakaja issued a stern warning to shoddy developers involved in such construction works.
On Thursday, Wamatangi said the owner of the ill-fated building in Ruaka is known to them and that officials were looking for her.
“We will make sure the law takes its due course. Nonetheless, we will not be waiting for buildings to collapse then we start to look for the people who were not compliant,” he stated.
