US to bribe Kenya with a 3 billion shilling Hospital for Del Monte land

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The US government is offering a Sh3 billion teaching and referral hospital for Murang’a County as it raises the stakes in ongoing talks for renewal of a land lease for American Thika-based food processor Del Monte. Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata said the hospital will be built on land that the company has agreed to cede in the negotiations that are at an advanced stage. The company owns 22,000 acres (about 9,000 hectares) and Kandara Residents Association, chaired by Mr Philip Kamau, wants between 5,000 and 8,000 acres (2,023-3,237ha) put to public use. Murang’a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria says he wants an honest, transparent and mutually beneficial deal to resolve the stalemate, adding that “no single interest should override others in the process.”
INDUSTRIAL PARK
Mr Kamau Wednesday said his association has entered into a Sh130 billion partnership agreement with Fourways and Tatu City Investment to build an industrial park, low-cost housing units and a light industries zone on the ceded land.
Further, he said that there will be set aside at least 3, 000 acres (1,214ha) to resettle the landless in the county, with a formula to identify them yet to be established. Mr Kamau said there will be a social hall, a church and a mosque as well as a primary and a secondary school.
BRIEF PRESIDENT
“We’re seeking a meeting with the President to brief him on the partnership and have the county government’s blessings as we commence engagements,” he said. American ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter has petitioned Nairobi, through the Ministry of Land, seeking a speedy conclusion of the issue in line with the Free Trade Agreement pact that the two countries have signed and which awaits parliamentary ratification. Lands Principal Secretary Chris Muraguri revealed that President Kenyatta has ordered him to ensure the issue is resolved by the end of this month. “I’m in a rush to meet the President’s directive that I lead an exercise of surveying and demarcating the Del Monte land with a view of determining the authenticity of the public claim placed therein and after arbitrating and reconciling the differences, we shall proceed to renew the lease,” he said.
COMMITMENT
Mr Kang’ata told the Nation that the American government has committed itself to build the hospital and also partner with the county in pursuing agricultural projects. “America and Del Monte have never had any problems with the demands that the locals have been fronting. It’s probably the method of engagement that was faulty. We’re now having very structured meetings and are nearly at the point of breaking the impasse,” he said. Mr McCarter told the Nation that, “Kenya has remained one of our good bilateral partners and a true friend both in times of bounty and gloom.” He said that, over and above the lease impasse, which he hoped will be resolved before it lapses in July 2022, America will continue proving to Kenyans the benefits of true friendship. “Kenyans are a wonderful people and their country has a beautiful heritage… we’re not tying our support and partnerships to the lease issue, rather, we’re only progressing (sic) what good diplomatic relations pertain,” he said.
 
Mr Black

Mr Black

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It is not as if Muranga county leaders want to terminate the lease so the offer is a win, hio story ya an industrial park just seems like a lazy idea and resettling landless squatters must be a ploy to steal land.

I say they should negotiate for a shorter lease like 20yrs.

They should also squeeze a university out if the american govermment.
 
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The.Black.Templar

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Mr Black said:
It is not as if Muranga county leaders want to terminate the lease so the offer is a win, hio story ya an industrial park just seems like a lazy idea and resettling landless squatters must be a ploy to steal land.

I say they should negotiate for a shorter lease like 20yrs.

They should also squeeze a university out if the american govermment.
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waititu alikula yake ama hakukula?
 
Clemens

Clemens

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The.Black.Templar said:
Delmonte offers more employement than those proposed developments. Wacha waachiliwe wajenge hospitali and end this nonsense. Let this not go the Dominion Farm way
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Those employed there are not from Murang'a and Kiambu Counties which hosts the farm, that's according to the chairman lawyer Kamau from Kandaria, it's therefore not beneficial to them.

If they get that land I foresee a problem where the people of South Murang'a and North Kiambu fighting with the people of the other areas for a lion share of the same land.
 
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The.Black.Templar

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Clemens said:
Those employed there are not from Murang'a and Kiambu Counties which hosts the farm, that's according to the chairman lawyer Kamau from Kandaria, it's therefore not beneficial to them.

If they get that land I foresee a problem where the people of South Murang'a and North Kiambu fighting with the people of the other areas for a lion share of the same land.
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They may be saying that for the sake of clout with no real facts!, Delmonte requires alot of casual labourers and you cannot say that they come from Nairobi and Nyeri. In anycase, the money those people get paid usually ends up being spent in Muranga and Kiambu, yes, no?
 
Clemens

Clemens

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The.Black.Templar said:
They may be saying that for the sake of clout with no real facts!, Delmonte requires alot of casual labourers and you cannot say that they come from Nairobi and Nyeri. In anycase, the money those people get paid usually ends up being spent in Muranga and Kiambu, yes, no?
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Some of it(the money) is, most isn't, they consider it capital flight, with a multinational in the area for a century, the sleepy villages of Kandara and Gatanga can attest to the flight.

I wouldn't say that they have no facts, they being residents of the place, and being ready to engage the president as a pressure group, they can't come this far with claims built on straws.
 
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The.Black.Templar

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Clemens said:
Some of it(the money) is, most isn't, they consider it capital flight, with a multinational in the area for a century, the sleepy villages of Kandara and Gatanga can attest to the flight.

I wouldn't say that they have no facts, they being residents of the place, and being ready to engage the president as a pressure group, they can't come this far with claims built on straws.
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anyways, it is better in the long run to continue having Delmonte in the area and have the hospital built than end up having corrupt cartels benefit from that land the same way they benefitted from the Ngong forest land. Imagine they get the land for free and then sell it for several billions, literally free money! That would not be right at all!
 
Clemens

Clemens

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The.Black.Templar said:
anyways, it is better in the long run to continue having Delmonte in the area and have the hospital built than end up having corrupt cartels benefit from that land the same way they benefitted from the Ngong forest land. Imagine they get the land for free and then sell it for several billions, literally free money! That would not be right at all!
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True the common man will get the short end of the stick if the land is reverted to the public.
 
Ubongo

Ubongo

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Mr Black said:
It is not as if Muranga county leaders want to terminate the lease so the offer is a win, hio story ya an industrial park just seems like a lazy idea and resettling landless squatters must be a ploy to steal land.

I say they should negotiate for a shorter lease like 20yrs.

They should also squeeze a university out if the american govermment.
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Shorter leases should be the way to go
 
Field Marshal

Field Marshal

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FACT: That land was taken from locals at the barrel of a gun.

The locals MUST have the final say, not clueless keyboard experts or the American ambassador. Mimi sijui Mkikuyu hata mmoja anakalia 9,000 hectares za prime land huko Marekani.

The End.
 
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