[kictanet] Weird Things ...Konza City?

Tue Feb 7 18:34:52 EAT 2012

Yawe,

Ok.  Now I read you.  You are truly the devil's advocate that we need.  I like the "Lakeview Technopolis" idea, I think it is viable option - irrespective of who is President ;-) And in any case, why not have the two Cities- "the silicon Savanah" together with "the silicon Nyanza".

As for the rest of your  questions - I guess there are folks on the lists who can give us the answers. I believe they are pertinent and worthy of an answer or two.

regards.

walu.

--- On Tue, 2/7/12, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Weird Things ...Konza City?
To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 3:14 PM

@Walu,
In short what the AG said was that government land cannot be assigned to an individual or entity but must be offered to the general public.  The statement was initially targeted at the Airtel/Postal/IBM deal of the plot opposite Yaya Centre but it spoke volumes as it gave a precedent for the way forward as relates to government land.
Konza is government land and is and will be governed by the law of the land as relates to such resource, therefore if Microsoft wanted to put up a campus in Konza on a 20
 acre plot the government would have to tender for its sell.
At which point Yawe and Co-speculators Inc. will tender and likely win as we shall play the nationalist, county and tribe card.  We will then offer the same land to Microsoft at an inflated price who will reject the offer and opt to locate to the Lakeview Techno City next to RIAT with views from the largest fresh water lake offering water sports.  
My group and I will then subdivide the 20 acres into broty of 50 x 100 and sell them to the public to recover our investment.  Visit the area around Bamburi and London Distillers in Athi River/Mavoko area for a living and breathing example of what Konza will look like by the year 2020, it is even more pronounced from GoogleEarth.  
That was the initial location of the EPZ before it was felt necessary to relocate the same 2 kilometres down the road into Rift
 Valley Province.  The architect of that relocation is an aspiring presidential candidate, what stops him from relocating Konza if he wins the election?
Let us not blind ourselves to the reality and return to the Kenya we know, the EPZ continues to struggle many years later, JKIA remains with hundreds of empty plots still being held onto by prospective investors who where allocated the land over 30 years ago, Baba Dogo is turning into a large residential area and the KIE sheds in Industrial Area have become stores.
Runda Closeburn will definitely fly, Tatu will limp along for a while but Konza will be a still birth.

What is the strategy for Konza and can someone answer these questions for us?	will the land be sold to
 prospective investors better known as speculators or leased to investors?
	will the government allocate the land to prospective investors a.k.a Karurarists?	how long will it take to develop the infrastructure noting that Nairobi still cannot provide sufficient water, sewerage services and electricity to its residents 200 years down the road?	when the infrastructure is complete and the land allocated how long will it be before the first tenant moves in?	if the first tenant moves in sometime around 2030 will the concept still be
 viable?	is the rest of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Maldives sleeping?	once Raila becomes President, after beating a joint force of Kalonzo, Uhuru & Ruto, what is the likelihood that he will allow that level of national resources to be spent in that region instead of relocate the same to for example Nyanza where there is already an International Airport, is closer to Southern Sudan, the residents speak fluent english plus has english like names to boot, it is a marginalized county (highest child mortality rate) and it gave him their vote as a block?
Until we get a comprehensive report from the various players i.e. treasury, ministry of
 information, ministry of lands, AG's Chambers, local government, county representatives and the President the project shall remain as dead as a dodo irrespective of how many flashy advertisements are run by a sub-entity of a sub-entity of a substantial participant in the project.
Walu, in your case which ever way it goes nothing affects your setting up a lab, but if I was the University I would look at putting up an entire self sufficient campus.
Regards
PS.  China government is to build 1000 houses in Kisumu plus any other projects that they deem necessary to giving Kisumu the status becoming of a City. Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
        From: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
 To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
 Sent: Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 11:04
 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Weird Things ...Konza City?

@Yawe,

u seem to b on the
 inside loop on this one.  Konza City, scuttled?  I had advised my boss to book a university lab there and now I might need guidance on what next? 

And thats me as a local stakeholder, what of the international stakeholders - what would they make of your statement?

walu.

--- On Mon, 2/6/12, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Weird Things ...
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 5:25 PM

Listers,
Are we seriously having this discussion, please leave certification to institutes of education such as Universities who already issue degrees in computer science and the like.
This is just another tax guzzling scheme like the Konza adverts being run on TV yet the AG has already scuttled the project, 
We are aware that all the great software applications developed over the past 3 decades have been done by enthusiasts or as Philip Ochieng
 recently clarified amateurs, a situation that is not about to change any time soon.
KICT eat in peace.
Regards
PS.  Liko lets go look for something more productive to do with our time, wachana na mambo ya certification na business plans.   Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
        From: Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com>
 To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
 Sent: Sunday, 5 February 2012, 14:00
 Subject: [kictanet] Weird Things ...

Samsung launched its 2nd Engineering Academy with a local Educational Institution

The ICT Board on the other hand is working with a Foreign Institution to
 launch a Kenyan software development certification

:)

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