Kisumu Mega Plaza’s Occupants Scamper to Safety as Tower “Trembles and Cracks”

It was a calm Saturday afternoon when Kisumu’s Mega Plaza located at Oginga Odinga street started shaking at around 3.00 pm, triggering a major stampede as occupants scampered to safety. Experts who arrived at the building to inspect it discovered that one of the floors of the two-tower building had developed a crack. One tower has 16 floors while the second tower has 17. The cause of the crack could not immediately be established. Kisumu County government, through Abala Wanga, the acting City Manager, sent experts to the scene as…