Other orgarnisations that have expressed intention to set up are Tea Board of Kenya, Nairobi Hospital, University Of Nairobi and The South Eastern University College (SEUCO). The ministry of Information and Communication has embarked on an awareness campaign to get more local and international companies and investment groups on board the Konza City development.
The concept masterplan for the Sh2 trillion project has already been finalised by IFC and it is now sourcing for a master delivery partner. “Commercial development, starting with BPO uses, would be funded by private sector investment. This would be accompanied by the provision of finalized limited housing and social infrastructure supported by GoK,” says the report. The treasury allocated Sh600 million to the Vision 2030 project and is expected to allocate the same amount this year out of the Sh2.25 billion resource requirement ,the deficit to come from the private sector.
The site for the Technology City is in public ownership, having been acquired by the ministry of Information to lease out to developers. There will be a Central Business District (CBD) occupying 237 acres with space for commercial offices, retail and leisure uses, hotels, a convention centre, a district hospital, and other related uses. In the plan, a BPO Technopark has been allocated 390acres targeted to deliver almost 82,000 jobs and 52 acres for a university campus. “We envisage that this could be a campus related to one of the existing universities serving Nairobi, rather than a brand new university,” reads the final report by IFC. The information PS, Bitange Ndemo says the Special Economic Zones model being applied in Konza is the best for development as economic and commercial as policies will be more liberal than in the rest of the country.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Winfried Kagwe
Quelle/Source: The Star, 06.02.2012
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