$12m bridge collapses two weeks after presidential inspection

A bridge that is being built by the Chinese Overseas Construction and Engineering Company at a cost of $12m has fell. 

The bridge crumpled two weeks after the president went by the site to look at the continuous work. 

The development of the bridge was endorsed after the occasion of August 30, 2014, when 11 individuals died after a boat they had boarded overturned, murdering everybody on board as they endeavored to cross the boat, as per Africa Review. 

The bridge, which is being built in Kenya's Budalang'i Constituency close to the fringe with Uganda, broken down a fortnight after President Uhuru Kenyatta assessed it. 

One of the casualties of the pontoon overturn was Brian Juma, a JSS3 student whose burial, among different casualties, was attended by President Kenyatta who at

that point guaranteed that an extension would be built to turn away such passings.

The reason for the crumple is yet obscure, however it is suspected that the development was hastily done in front of the president's visit.

Amid the investigation, Project Manager, Jerome Xzue Hua, said they were concentrating their consideration on the solid section and dike. 

"We didn't concentrate much on street development on the northern side in light of the fact that the most basic purpose of development is the bridge's section. 

"We hope to finish the bitumen work toward the finish of June for the whole three kilometers for both the northern and southern parts," he had said. 

Be that as it may, for the present disaster, the venture was required to be finished before the finish of July. 

Amid President Kenyatta's visit, zone MP Ababu Namwamba said the bridge was a gift to occupants since it would altogether lessen passings by suffocating, and make it less demanding for individuals to get to business sectors, schools and doctor's facilities on either side. 

Namwamba has been utilizing the extension as a crusade device for his re-decision for a third term and even broke positions with resistance boss Raila Odinga to unite with President Kenyatta through his Labor Party of Kenya.