Simiti si Maendeleo: The Danger of Overlooking the Importance of Green Spaces in Urban Areas and its Effects
Image from Google In 1989, President Moi, together with the KANU Government, planned to build a complex in Nairobi's Central Business District, with room for KANU headquarters, a conference facility, shopping malls, the defunct Kenya Times newspaper and TV Station among other facilities. The building would be 60 storeys high and the tallest in East Africa, grandiose, facilitative and within the CBD's lung, better known as Uhuru Park. [1] On the 18th of April 2024, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja included in his handover speech his plan to establish a nightclub within Uhuru Park. He stated that within the park, restaurants and conference centres and a nightclub among other facilities, will be built, as per his proposal. [2] This is after the construction of the expressway just a f...