Once you see Ndemo propelled management put in place the necessary infrastructure within and leading to Konza like super highway, water, power etc in place then believe the project will materialize.

I tend to like the way KIbaki works. He does not shout on top of his trap about "I will ensure a superhighway is built between Nairobi and Thika blah blah blah". He does it without fun fair and the end products are evident. Serious roads emerge and pple still don't seem to get it. They still want tall tails, kitendawali and matusi. Why are so many Kenyans so silly?

For those who still doubt the marvels Kibaki has done for this country, check this out.

The report also commended the government for playing an important role in leading the growth results.

In its study, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union singled out the government’s robust strategy for reviving the economy as the reason for this growth.

It compared Kenya’s growth to the growth of Asian and Latin American countries which achieved growth by adopting deliberate state intervention strategies.

Strategies planned and implemented by government through its fiscal and monetary agents that intervened directly in economic and social aspects of the country have been identified as the causes for this growth.

The report claims that Kenya is on the right path in regard to achieving Vision 2030.

http://www.uneca.org/era2011/ERA2011_ENG-fin.pdf

Give Kibaki another five yrs and he would have created the first true African Tiger.

@Abby - Tatu and Konza are two different projects...Tatu is more of a real estate oriented project for housing and allied facilities while Konza is meant to help grow ICT as a pillar of the Kenyan economy (BPO, PC Manufacturing, software development, hosting services, skills development, etc etc) - think of it as an EPZ for IT companies exclusively. Comparable to Dubai Internet City (http://www.dubaiinternetcity.com/)

This project would be good for the area. Speculation suggests that it is still on.

Income taxes and wages in India are much lower than in Kenya.

40,000/- gross monthly pay

Kenya income tax - 5,932/- (14.83%)

India income tax - 1,154/- (2.88%)

80,000/- gross monthly pay

Kenya income tax - 17,932/- (22.42%)

India income tax - 5,274/- (6.59%)

160,000/- gross monthly pay

Kenya income tax - 38,932/- (24.33%)

India income tax - 25,050/- (15.66%)

200,000/- gross monthly pay

Kenya income tax - 53,932/- (26.97%)

India income tax - 37,410/- (18.70%)

Kenya income tax calculator

http://www.aren.co.ke/kenya/payecalc.htm

Indian government income tax calculator

http://law.incometaxindi.../DIT/Xtras/taxcalc.aspx

According to the CIA World Factbook, India's government revenue is 11.94% of GDP while Kenya's is 21.64%.

Kenya

https://www.cia.gov/libr...d-factbook/geos/ke.html

India

https://www.cia.gov/libr...d-factbook/geos/in.html

Wages in India are also much lower than in Kenya. For example, a software developer in India has an average gross monthly pay of KSh 49,000.

http://www.payscale.com/...IN/Country=India/Salary

The gross monthly pay for a programmer analyst at Cognizant, a BPO with annual sales of $4.59bn, starts at KSh 47,000.

http://www.payscale.com/...ployer=Cognizant/Salary

Cognizant's sales grew by 40.1% during the last financial year. Equity is a conservative 81.16% of assets. $1 invested in the shares in 1998 would now be $173.40. It had 111,200 employees as at 31/03/11, mostly in India.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:CTSH

It had 104,000 employees as at 31/12/10 so they hired 7,200 more employees in just 3 months.

http://www.businessweek....ased_in_teaneck_nj.html

It plans to hire 25,000 more employees in India this year.

http://articles.economic...-campus-cts-first-phase

It's building facilities in India that can accommodate 55,000 more employees.

http://www.bizindia.net/...p;catId=61&locID=60

Francisco D'Souza, the 43-year-old CEO, was born and raised in Kenya.

http://images.businesswe...ssful_immigrants/10.htm

The top 5 Indian BPOs hired 114,038 more employees during the first 3 months of the year.

http://articles.economic...-addition-numbers-wipro

There are 2 reasons why an investor would invest in Kenya instead of India despite India's low taxes and wages.

1. To sell to the Kenyan and regional markets.

2. To exploit a natural resource like minerals, fertile land, good climate, wildlife, beaches, fish, sea, lakes, etc.

BPOs do neither of the above so investors would rather have them in India.