[kictanet] Why Konza is high on rhetoric and short on prudence

[Ali Hussein]

To add on to what you have said Kivuva this is what (to paraphrase Management Guru, Jim Collins) a Big Hairy Audacious Goal looks like  and the old economic models or thought processing are obsolete. We must strive to beat the rules of Gravity - only then can we achieve greatness. This is not a white elephant in the fashion of Turkwell Gorge..

Ali Hussein
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On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

> Kwame Owino is not presenting the facts accurately. Actually, he's not
> thinking critically.
> 
> Of the ~$8.5billion that will be spent on the next 20years, GoK will
> spend a very tiny fraction of that amount since the bulk of that
> capital will be sourced and utilized by firms that will setup at
> Konza. You cannot start calculating Net Present Value now of capital
> that will be employed over two decades, by hundreds of different
> entities, that would never have converged if Konza was not a reality.
> Without Konza, that capital would have gone somewhere else, say South
> Africa, or Rwanda.
> 
> The net result of the project is positive for Kenya since "what do we
> stand to loose?"
> 
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