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If you have watched the news of late, you might have noticed this new addition to the city's skyline of a brown looking building that bulges from the side just like a Mheshimiwa's kitambi...
Anyway, the project was sanctioned some years back and involved the building of an ultra-modern 27 storey office block to house the expanded 418-member legislature kicked off after the Parliamentary Service Commission formally handed over the project to a Chinese firm, China Jiangxi Construction Company.
The proposed building which also includes four basement parking floors and a tunnel connecting to both chambers of Parliament will be erected on a one-acre plot between Continental House and County Hall in Nairobi at a cost of Sh5.8 billion shillings.
The plot was allocated to Parliament by the government in the year 2000.
MPs had complained that some of them have been forced to work from their cars and hotels, while some have been seen meeting the constituents along Parliament Road and other streets because they lack office space.
MPs already have offices in the County Hall Building, Continental House (which houses official offices for the legislators), Kenyatta International Convention Centre (where the Senate temporarily sits and has offices) and Protection House.
PSC Secretary and Senate Clerk Jeremiah Nyegene had said that Members of Parliament who had not been allocated offices would be given Sh75,000 monthly for rent.
Nyegene indicated that they had difficulty finding offices for the MPs inside buildings located near Parliament or in the Central Business District because of the high rent.
Monthly rental prices on commercial spaces range between Sh60 to Sh100 per square foot depending on the quality of the building, indicating that the State rents about 3.5 million square feet in privately owned property.
Alafu mkumbuke hii ndio building iko na tunnel ya 110 mirrions linking Parliament underground coz ati raia hukuja kusumbua wakubwa kwa parking
I took some photos
Anyway, the project was sanctioned some years back and involved the building of an ultra-modern 27 storey office block to house the expanded 418-member legislature kicked off after the Parliamentary Service Commission formally handed over the project to a Chinese firm, China Jiangxi Construction Company.
The proposed building which also includes four basement parking floors and a tunnel connecting to both chambers of Parliament will be erected on a one-acre plot between Continental House and County Hall in Nairobi at a cost of Sh5.8 billion shillings.
The plot was allocated to Parliament by the government in the year 2000.
MPs had complained that some of them have been forced to work from their cars and hotels, while some have been seen meeting the constituents along Parliament Road and other streets because they lack office space.
MPs already have offices in the County Hall Building, Continental House (which houses official offices for the legislators), Kenyatta International Convention Centre (where the Senate temporarily sits and has offices) and Protection House.
PSC Secretary and Senate Clerk Jeremiah Nyegene had said that Members of Parliament who had not been allocated offices would be given Sh75,000 monthly for rent.
Nyegene indicated that they had difficulty finding offices for the MPs inside buildings located near Parliament or in the Central Business District because of the high rent.
Monthly rental prices on commercial spaces range between Sh60 to Sh100 per square foot depending on the quality of the building, indicating that the State rents about 3.5 million square feet in privately owned property.
Alafu mkumbuke hii ndio building iko na tunnel ya 110 mirrions linking Parliament underground coz ati raia hukuja kusumbua wakubwa kwa parking
I took some photos
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