The 2012 elections will be well funded

A very good idea but the question is WHEN!!! I remember reading about this project in early 2006, five years later nothing. Now suddenly on the eve of 2012, they are talking bout it. They say they have allocated 1 billion, what is 1 billion to the eye of a 1 trillion shilling project? Peanuts i say. This is all talk. I'll believe it when i see the contractor on site.

i heard first of the superhighway in 2006..
i heard about the Lamu port even earlier..
to plan a multi unit housing project proper takes a good portion of a year..
the information i have indicates that the survey for the rail to sudan is been done now.. these are capitally intensive projects that are expensive and take long to prepare else you will be left with a set of stuck up results such as what happened when njeru githae started arguing with the city council over who provides street lighting..
the metropolitan dream.. the ICT park will be enjoyed by your children..

my question is who is goin to use this infrastructure. forgive my naivity but are there any serious investors who have pledged to set up shop at konza? and why do is smell the fattening of pockets? in my view, G.K should have offered an incentive for private business to do business ata kama its a refund on infrastructure spending that way the 1tril wount go through 10 MP's and 20 contractors and only 100 mill by the time it fikaz konza.

@Eddy, leave the wet blankets alone. Even when you talk of trillion shilling investments they will still be there. The future is extremely bright for ICT and that's all there is to this story really. Even if 99.9% of the money is eaten, there will still be 10billion left to build world class ICT infrastructure

Total nonsense...

KES 10bn does not buy you world-class ICT infrastructure to compete with India or Phillipines!

100% - 99.9% = 0.1% x 1 [USA] trillion = KES 1bn

If GoK borrows 1 trillion at 10% = 100bn in interest. How will investing 10bn yield 100bn in perpetuity?

Seems KenyanLyrics works for GoK where math is an esoteric subject...

@lyrics- its either your relative is an mp or your really have faith on people that almost bled the country dry in two decades. They want to leave with a final bang so they give us konza, jus like they gave us kazi kwa vijana, triton,..... Do you have a clue how much GK owes kenyans alone? and they'r still borrowing to fatten their wallets.
this ict park would have built itself privately and GK involvement wouldve been only regulation.

Seems lyk u misunderstood me, my intention was to show you how overexaggerrated the project is compared to the problem being adressed. Take note of what I pointed out; that the locals had issues with the project being put up there in the first place. If the locals dont need it there then WTH tell u that the 'other kenyans' will?

The question we should be asking ourselves is how many of those ICT parks can be put up in different areas of the counry with the same budget?

Even PLO said there is one big storm of a scandal brewing...... I hope it is not on this project! Who will ever save this country from greed?