City developers can now breathe easy after the Nairobi Metropolitan Services cleared 4,400 development project applications that had piled up since August 2019. President Uhuru Kenyatta had on March 18 directed the NMS to streamline projects development and clear approvals that had accumulated following the takeover of City Hall by corruption cartels. The Major-General Mohammed Badi-led team effectively introduced e-construction development control system for development applications approval processing at the Lands and Physical Planning sector. Trouble in the sector started in August last year after Governor Mike Sonko suspended Urban Planning chief officer Justus Kathenge. He said new Pre-Technical and Urban Planning Development committees were to be reconstituted as per his May 13 notice which had disbanded the Nairobi City County Pre-Technical Committee and the Nairobi City County Urban Planning Technical Committee.

Source: The Star July 06, 2020 19:52 UTC