@YvonneOkwara why do you have that idiot on the #theexplainer i dont know a single commercial vehicle owner who takes their vehicles physically for inspection, much less that they want to 'inspect' personal vehicles
NGONG/OLOOLUA “KILLER BUILDING” COLLAPSE: FACTS, FICTION & MURKOMEN OWNERSHIP
🔴 Confirmed Facts
An 8-storey building under construction partially collapsed on Friday evening, 8 May 2026, at Ole Nairi area in Oloolua Ward, Kajiado North Sub-County
Eyewitnesses say the building came down at around 11pm following heavy rains, with several construction workers at the site when it caved in.
At least one body has been recovered and taken to Ngong Sub-County Mortuary, with three others still missing and feared dead beneath the rubble.
Families of victims have called on rescue teams to hasten operations, and the cause of the collapse is yet to be officially established.
Residents had previously raised concerns about the construction, with a local mason alleging the mixture used “had more sand than concrete and cement” and that construction was completed unusually quickly
🔴 The Murkomen Ownership Allegations Social media is awash with photos of Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen in connection with the collapsed building story — the specific link between Murkomen and ownership of this particular structure is being alleged publicly but has not yet been officially confirmed or denied by Murkomen or the government.
Murkomen is CS for Interior and National Administration — the very ministry that oversees internal security and the national government administration infrastructure in the county where the building collapsed.
If the ownership allegation is confirmed, it would mean the CS in charge of national security and public order personally owns an unapproved, unsupervised, and deadly construction — a catastrophic conflict of interest.
🔴 The ex MP Joseph Manje Angle
Joseph Wathigo Manje is the former two-term MP for Kajiado North (2013–2022), who lost his bid to become Kajiado Deputy Governor in 2022. He has business interests in construction and has deep knowledge of the area.
Manje’s public statements on the collapse go to the heart of a governance crisis — his argument being that if a sitting CS’s own building was neither approved nor supervised, it exposes the total collapse of regulatory oversight.
🔴 The Regulatory Failure — Pattern of Impunity
This is the second building collapse in the same Oloolua area — a six-storey building had collapsed there in 2022, meaning no structural lessons were learned and no deterrent enforcement followed.
In May 2024, when a building collapsed in Uthiru, the then Roads CS Kipchumba Murkomen himself publicly stated that engineers who supervised such projects “must be held personally liable” and directed NCA to act — yet enforcement stalled. This makes the current allegations against him deeply ironic and damning.
Angry residents accused the county government of delaying rescue operations for nearly 10 hours after the collapse — families waited desperately as those trapped remained buried
🔴 The Hard Questions
If the building belongs to CS Murkomen and had no approved plans and no @ncakenya supervision, then it was an illegal construction — and deaths resulting from it constitute criminal negligence at minimum.
CS overseeing internal security cannot simultaneously be the owner of an unapproved, deadly building in a county under his administration — that is a textbook conflict of interest and an abuse of office.
The whole structure should be demolished — consistent with Kenya’s own NCA enforcement policy on unapproved buildings, which has been applied to ordinary Kenyans without hesitation.
Resignation is insufficient. The law — including the Penal Code on criminal negligence causing death — must apply equally regardless of political office. Ordinary contractors have been prosecuted for far less.
Kenya has a national epidemic of building collapses. The pattern has been the same for years: outrage, promises, then business as usual. A CS facing murder-grade criminal charges would finally break that cycle. It’s a test of rule of law! @joelenku
@bakhita_esther@246_36_254 Murder is criminal and doesnt require anyone to press charges. Investigations should reveal who killed, and from whose instructions
@MwangiBonnie Very painful reading through this....may his soul BURN IN HELL. Why do we get leaders like this? Driven, solely, by personal interest. That child's tears were avenged by fire
A 17-gun salute roared across the distant hills of Bondo in reverence for the passing of the political icon. For the first time ever in Kenya’s post-independence history, Raila’s burial drew the collective grief of the nation.
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