Developer Fined Sh500,000 For Missing Safety Net And Working past 5pm
According to NEMA ,
all construction sites should have a
signboard as per the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure standards
indicating the Nema reference number, buffers are installed and all activities done 8am and
5pm
A city private developer caught breaching National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) licence.He was handed the penalty by
Kibera Resident Magistrate William Tullel after pleading guilty to charges of
breaching conditions of a license contrary to the environmental impact
assessment audit.
Mohammed admitted that he breached the conditions on March
22 while undertaking his project along Ole Shapara Road in South C, Nairobi.
The court heard that on the material day at around 6pm,
environmental inspector Koiyet Shieni
and a team of police officers attached to Nema arrived at the site. They were
responding to an incident reported to the authority by members of the public
living near the construction site.
They found the construction of a residential unit ongoing
and workers still on the site.
Shieni asked for the person in charge and Mohamed introduced
himself as the person in charge and produced a license through his phone which
was confirmed to have been issued by Nema regional office at Nyayo House.
The conditions Mohammed had violated include a requirement
to put up a signboard as per the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure
standards indicating the Nema reference number, failing to ensure buffers –
hoarding and duct screens- are installed to protect members of the public from
falling objects and failing to ensure construction activities are undertaken
during the day between 8am and 5pm .
Because of this, Mohammed was arrested immediately and by default
the will serve a two years jail term and
pay a fine of Ksh 500,000
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