the only thing coming down for potential investors is rent everything else is up insurance security etc it will take a generation for eldy to recover

You may be right about effects of PEV. However, this happened just the other day. Industries such as sawmills, dairy, tannin, and textiles had experienced problems much earlier. The cause is obvious - leadership. But as we speak, industries such as dairies, maize, wheat, cotton etc are reviving fast. Horticulture is particularly establishing! The other week, Miscrosoft founder, Bill Gates himself was in the region to see very young ambitious farmers. Real estate is also growing.

>> @ thunder are you sure about 6bn figure? sounds inflated or misquoted...however eldoret town was unscathed by the fracas and mountain mafia are doing what they do best..business

@ wakanyugi, Eldoret will not benefit much through Southern Sudan...if it cannot take the advantage of the next door neighbour Uganda then forget SS... rich agricultural land is an edge that Eldoret has always slept on deeply...the pev really exposed who the actual diggers and growers were.. @ mwanafunzi, no growth of education anymore...the majority of the scholars were the alien stock and to get them back is another issue all together. @ thunderbird, is moi university peddling drugs to afford an annual collection of 6b? even the most established university (Nairobi) in the midst of larger education thirsty population does not manage a billion. @ kenmac, you do not seem to be breathing the kenyan oxygen in the kenyan space... @ all, Eldoret town to me seems to be one whose growth is unnatural...many services were forced into it without any regard to the population that they were meant to serve...e.g putting up a ksh 4 billion airport which is incapable of operating at 10% of its intended capacity does not make sense...a CBK and a multimillion oil pumping and storage were not necessary while kisumu (which has more potential) which is just about 100km required an upgrade on these services to serve the region... i believe the agriculture based economy in Eldoret could propell the town's growth.