The planned demolition of unsafe residential buildings in Nairobi's Huruma slum failed failed to kick off on Thursday. He said the county has established that 60 per cent buildings in the county were put up without due approval. Read: Huruma collapse is proof that corruption killsKhaemba said about 78 houses were found defective at Huruma, out of which five landlords acquired court orders stopping their destruction. The county official said substandard buildings at Pipeline estate will be demolished after those that are being worked on at the moment. Only one earth mover from the county was on site Thursday and only cleared debris blocking way for the expected bulldozers.

Source: The Star August 11, 2016 19:18 UTC