Kigali city tower sky scrapper the latest and tallest building has a malfunctioning elevator (lifts). Our reporter and other city dwellers got trapped in the elevator for over thirty minutes on January 4.
It is said that the technician in charge of operating the elevator at the city tower complex had gone home and they had to wait until he comes back and work on their way out of the lift.
This is not the first time elevators in High rise buildings in Kigali have been shunned by city dwellers claiming they get trapped leaving them stranded for several hours.
An elevator or lift is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel or other structures.
Elevators are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables or counterweight systems like a hoist, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston like a jack.
Igihe.com also witnessed Vice Prime Minister of Timor Leste, José Luis Guterres during his visit to Rwanda late last year getting stuck with other people in the lift at the Rwanda’s Premature building for over 20 minutes.
Another anticipated building with the same problem is where RURA offices are based. Many people claim that its elevator also strands people in there.
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