[kictanet] Construction at Konza City to start in three months time

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Here is the story on the mapping survey
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Varsity-s-mapping-deal-sets-the-stage-for-Konza-takeoff/-/539546/2224814/-/efopjwz/-/index.html

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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
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On 21 March 2014 02:39, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Solomon,
>
> Kindly get in touch with me cnadeya at ict.go.ke and cc konza at ict.go.ke. I
> will ensure you get a status update and you can and we can take you through
> the details of where . President Kibaki launched the Project, not the
> Masterplan, it was not ready by then. The team will gladly share any
> information that you may want to go over as this is a public project, there
> is nothing to hide.
>
> Please also do not rely so much on the way the print media sometimes
> report information. What is on-going is the Cadastral survey to demarcate
> the parcels in Phase 1. This should be done within 3 months to allow the
> other infrastructure teams that were dependant on this survey to come in.
> This includes electricity, water, roads etc. The basic horizontals have to
> be done for the for the verticals to come up. There is nothing to hide.
>
> Karibu sana,
>
> Catherine
>
>    On Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:47 PM, Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau <
> solo.mburu at gmail.com> wrote:
>   While I commend the management board of Konza City for this
> initiative, I think they are hiding some truths from us.
>
> When the City Masterplan was launched awhile back, there was a lot
> hope and expectations. however, things took a different twist when
> there were corruption allegations against Dr. Ndemo.
>
> To cut the long story short, when the investors heard of the
> corruption allegations they pulled off.
> Who really, in his right mind would invest in a programme where you
> are unsure of the ROI?
>
> Perhaps, we need to do away with middle men and such people for the
> technolopolis to take place, effective.
>
>
> Let us wait and see... three months is just a blink away.
>
> On 20/03/2014, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Construction at Konza City, Kenya's pioneer technopolis, is expected to
> > start in the next three months.The chairman of the Konza Technopolis
> > Development Authority (Kotda) John Ngumi said companies are waiting for
> an
> > ongoing survey to be completed to start construction of infrastructure.
> >
> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Construction-at-Konza-City-to-start-in-three-months-time/-/996/2251386/-/13h6apg/-/index.html
> >
>
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