



A bridge being built by China Overseas Engineering Group collapsed on Monday just 11 days after Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta came to personally inspect commend the 10 million dollar project. At least 27 workers on the bridge were injured in the collapse that happened before bridge was completed baffling the company's engineers. Construction has been halted while the government works out what it wants to do about the problematic project.

The bridge is located on the River Nzioa, a site where 11 people lost their lives trying to cross back in 2014. “This is very unusual because all the standards and specifications required by the employer were met,” One of the project managers stated. “We have experienced engineers and we are equally baffled by what happened. We hope to find the root cause of the problem and rectify the matter.”

The accident is bad news for the many Chinese companies operating and hoping to score contruction contracts in Africa. The nation has worked hard to shed its reputation for poor quality and cutting corners in safety checks. It's not good for the president either, whose rival has repeatedly critisized the current government's large and expensive infrastructure projects, one of which has just fell through before it was even finished.

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