Why You Will be Charged to Use Green Park Terminus
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is planning to charge a token fee for certain services at the newly built Green Park terminus.
The General Badi-led agency says the token fee will be levied according to the activities that will be allowed to take place within the terminal.
NMS Transport and Public Works Director Engineer Michael Ochieng on Monday said the fee will be used to maintain the Sh200 million terminal.
He said the terminal has to be maintained at high standards, which can only be achieved by charging the token fee.
Daily Charges That Will Run Ksh 200M Green Park Terminus
Green Park Terminus at the Old Railways Club in Nairobi
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Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has announced that the maintenance of the newly-built Green Park Terminus will be bankrolled by a variety of daily charges at the facility.
Speaking to the press on Monday, May 3, NMS Transport and Public Works Director Engineer Michael Ochieng stated that maintaining the park was an expensive affair that would require innovative ways of generating funds.
The fee, which will also be charged on advertisers and the users of the ablution blocks, will be used in running the facility constructed at a cost of Ksh200 million.
NMS Transport and Public Works Director Engineer Michael Ochieng said the fee will be used to sustain the Sh200 million terminal to be used as drop-off and pick-up point for matatus plying the Ngong and Lang’ata roads route.
Eng. Ochieng said the token fee, which is being developed by stakeholders, will enable the terminal operate itself in a sustainable manner rather than as a commercial enterprise.
The fee will involve maintaining a clean environment, fumigation and safety measures by a management team that will be tasked with managing the terminus.
He said the park must be maintained to very high standards and this can only be achieved by charging the token fee to ensure it is sustainable.
Green Park terminus users to pay service fees
Monday May 03 2021
By COLLINS OMULO
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) will charge service fees at the newly-built Green Park terminus to be used to run operations.
The token fee will be levied on traders selling their wares at the matatu terminal, use of ablution blocks as well as advertisement spaces, among others.
NMS Transport and Public Works Director Engineer Michael Ochieng said the monies will be used to maintain the Sh200 million bus station that will serve as a drop-off and pick-up point for matatus plying the Ngong and Lang’ata routes as part of the wider Nairobi decongestion strategy.