Landowners Minting Millions from Multi-billion Govt Projects
Nairobi Expressway under construction in Westlands, Nairobi
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The government has over the last few years embarked on infrastructure projects worth billions around the country.
As the infrastructure projects are planned and eventually implemented, a number of landowners have found themselves smiling all the way to the bank as the government handsomely compensates them for land it wants to utilise for the projects.
In a gazette notice on March 5, 2021, the government through the National Land Commission (NLC) announced that it was set to acquire parcels of land for the Nairobi Expressway, Likoni Floating Bridge in Mombasa, the lower Nzoia irrigation development project in Siaya and Busia Counties.
THE STANDARD By
Boniface Gikandi |
December 24th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
A section of the Kenol market in Murangá County, which is one of the fast growing shopping centres in Central Kenya. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]
Twenty years ago, Kenol in Murang a County was a jungle no one took interest in.
Land prices were low. The lucrative option for enterprising locals was to sell land and resettle.
However, the fortunes of the area have changed. It is now one of the fastest-growing commercial centres in Central Kenya.
The market centre is where the late freedom fighter and former Kandara MP Bildad Kaggia operated a posho mill.