The Court of Appeal on Wednesday lifted a ban on two engineers whose licenses were suspended after a Ksh1.2 billion bridge they built in Western Kenya collapsed two weeks after it was launched.
Just two weeks after it was inspected and launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta, on June 26, 2017, Sigiri Bridge, straddling River Nzoia’s banks and linking Bunyala South and North, collapsed injuring a number of people.
The two engineers, Godfrey Ajuong Okumu, and Oliver Collins Wanyama moved to court seeking to have their two-year suspension by the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) lifted.
Their main ground of appeal was whether they were to blame for the collapse of the bridge.
Furthermore, they claimed that they would be denied livelihood in their practice as engineers if the two year-suspension was not lifted pending the determination of the intended appeal.
According to judges William Ouko, Fatuma Sichale, and Otieno-Odek, the two engineers had an arguable appeal which would be prejudiced if the order of stay was not granted.