Nairobi, March 7 -- President William Ruto's directive changing the design of one of the most ambitious multibillion-shilling affordable housing projects in Shauri Moyo, Nairobi has dug its implementation into a hole.

Sources indicate that construction experts are hard-pressed to find a way to actualise the project while still maintaining the original goal of providing affordable decent housing without putting excessive pressure on infrastructure and the environment and factoring in the local economy for affordability.

During the groundbreaking event a few weeks ago, Dr Ruto ordered that the skyscraper be raised to 25 floors from the initial design of 16 floors to address the land scarcity challenge.

"My people at the ministry had init...