@a4a.com wouldnt jkia need infrastructure wherever it will relocate to? Your argument seems to imply that govt institutions do not need infrastructure...

@jagernaut, in developed countries where land use planning is taken seriously, schools in urban areas are taxed heavily to compensate for hoarding developed prime land. Patch n changez, with hundreds of acres, fall in this category. These schools can then expand,upgrade into colleges and universities to compensate. jkia has caused ruai ,utawala and syokimau to have only 2 levels of building height due to flight path. This in turn has caused for nairobi to expand hence using more land and more tax payer money on unnecessary infrastructure. This doesnt sit well with the environment and kenyas budget.

@jamani, i supposed you saw our debate about konza viability in previous posts. My argument then was that konza is not feasible. This argument came to pass sometime early this year on what i had predicted.

http://www.wazua.co.ke/f...spx?g=posts&t=24882

I can predict to you that those glossy pictures of skyscrapers will not stand at konza within the next 40 to 50 years. Konza will be a city in the next 40 to 50 years or so. If Jkia is moved to konza, this is a good area for height restriction since population is still low. In the next 40 to 50 years, architects and planners who will take over after us will advise that jkia is shifted from konza to mtito andei.

Its high time kenyans started to see the bigger picture and move from the self to decisions that benefit the country as a whole. This is how developed countries eg usa, china, russia and europe work. Major decisions are left to professionals who decide for the benefit of the whole country. The lynch mob psychology seen with kenyans will not take us far as a country. Demolisions in syokimau and the threat to demolision in the kevivapi land to me are wrong and not beneficial to our economy.

@Jamani and @jaggernaut, i supposed you also will be happy when your tax payer money doesnt go to duplicate infrastructure, when you can live near nairobi cbd, when land is available for developers near nairobi hence lower rents etc. If such is beneficial to you, you have no choice but to embrace critical thinking/seeing things in new dimensions etc to solve such problems.

For example, beth mugo had suggested that another school be built within lenana school land. She was bombarded by the usual lynch mob and now the lenana school land continues to lie idle. This could have created more jobs etc etc

http://allafrica.com/stories/200612040529.html

Kenya: Minister in Land Dispute With School
BY MBURU MWANGI, 4 DECEMBER 2006
Nairobi — A tussle over land belonging to a top school is brewing after its board of governors declined to give up 40 acres as requested by an assistant minister for Education.

Dagoretti MP Beth Mugo wrote to Nairobi's Lenana School two weeks ago asking it to surrender the land for the establishment of a multi-purpose educational centre.

Jfk has not been moved, heathrow has not been moved, dubai international airport still being expanded in the middle of the city, just to mention but a few.. Your focus is only in nairobi for housing development...open your eyes.....You suggest JKIA be moved to mtito!! aaaih! I rest my case

And to add on to that today we celebrate Thika highway, other east african countries come for case studies....but think about it, if nakumatt and other buildings on the reserve were not demolished would we be celebrating?