Audit ordered after building collapse

Kenya’s president has ordered an audit of all buildings in the capital Nairobi after an eight-storey residential building collapsed, killing at least two people in the city’s second deadly collapse in a month caused by bad construction, officials said.

In December, eight people died when a building collapsed in Kaloleni, another lower-income area of Nairobi.

“The president is appalled that the building falls in a pattern of many structures across the country, that have been constructed without adherence to the basic laws and regulations governing housing development,” said President Uhuru Kenyatta’s spokesman, Manoah Esipisu.