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Photos: Houses Crack Due To Blasts From Quarries In Machakos County

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People living in Katani area of Mavoko sub-county are a worried lot after their houses started cracking owing to the blasts from quarries nearby. The houses which are constructed at a place where National Environmental Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA) has not put a buffer zone. Residents say they have complained

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People living in Katani area of Mavoko sub-county are a worried lot after their houses started cracking owing to the blasts from quarries nearby. The houses which are constructed at a place where National Environmental Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA) has not put a buffer zone. Residents say they have complained

Sep 25
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@yobos · Sep 25

People living in Katani area of Mavoko sub-county are a worried lot after their houses started cracking owing to the blasts from quarries nearby.

The houses which are constructed at a place where National Environmental Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA) has not put a buffer zone.

Residents say they have complained to NEMA for a long time but nothing has been done as NEMA officials only collects bribed.

There are over 20 quarries in the area. Photos. This a government facility constructed by Constituency Development Funds (CDF) should be condemned but the public health officials and NEMA have done nothing

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