Residents of Homa Bay County have vowed to avoid using a bridge valued at Ksh 700,000 that they helped finance.
According to a report by People Daily, the residents of Kamiawa and Kasare villages in Kasipul constituency claimed that the new bridge was shoddily constructed.
The community bridge, which is a metallic structure replacing a recent wooden one, was constructed to ease movement across a River Awach.
The residents contributed the money to aid in the construction of the bridge and allocated the supervisory role of the project to a 10-member committee.
They had also protested using the wooden version which prompted them to take matters in their own hands and put up the new one.
The residents seem to be averting a crisis as witnessed in 2017 when the infamous Ksh1.2 billion Sigiri bridge collapsed in Busia County.
The Sigiri bridge had been commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta and built by the Chinese Overseas Construction and Engineering Company.
The construction of the bridge was prompted by the death of a dozen people who were crossing the Nzoia River by boat.
In February, the National Construction Authority (NCA) warned that a third of buildings across the country were likely to collapse due to various factors including poor workmanship.
Since the first storey building tumbled in 1990, the country has recorded 87 cases with the highest having occurred in 2015 where 21 buildings collapsed around the country.
Most of the incidents were revealed to have employed poor workmanship as the main cause.
Some of the cases emerged after contractors failed to comply with statutory and safety requirements
