the proposed rift valley development authority _rvda

THE PROPOSED RIFT VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RVDA):

THE ECONOMIC STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2023

Rift Valley Professionals Forum & Rift Valley Youth Forum

E-mail addresses: [email protected]

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© 2011 Rift Valley Youth Forum


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SPECIAL REQUESTS

Rift Valley Councilors, Pastors, University/College student leaders, Opinion leaders, Business persons (especially television, radio, musicians- educative music compositions, photocopy and hotel operators), Community Based Organizations and other well wishers & sponsors are requested to avail the economic strategic plan to their members/Rift Valley residents, interpret for them and subsequently collect their inputs and send to us for consideration in the reviews. Rift Valley professionals and Youth are also called upon to register [County name] Professional Forum and [County name] Youth Forum for the purpose of promotion of adoption and implementation of the strategic plan, in addition to co-posting of documents that include this economic strategic plan and its key reference materials.

Rift Valley law professionals willing to volunteer in drafting legislation(s) bill(s) herein indicated to be introduced in County Assembly or Parliament, are requested to send us their expression to volunteer, indicating the specific legislation(s) bill(s) to draft and drafting timelines. All the drafted legislations bills will be posted promptly.

Interest groups, professionals and Youth residing in other economic regions are highly encouraged to study the strategic plan and utilize it in development of strategic plan applicable nation wide or in their region of residence.

Rift Valley residents, Kenyans in general, concerned foreign states’ consular & diplomatic representatives and other stakeholders are called upon to review the economic strategic plan and kindly submit your inputs and comments via our contacts by 31st December, 2011.


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First published by Rift Valley Youth Forum on 24th September, 2011

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FORWARD

Here-is proposed establishment of a participatory developmental scheme for Rift Valley Community and beyond, based on public – private partnership principles, with the public partner subsidizing the investment operational costs of the private investors for a tune of up to 30%. It is aimed at socio-economic development and promotion of social integration & cohesion in Rift Valley Community and beyond. Conceptualization of the scheme has been catalyzed by practical experience in the side of Rift Valley Community members - in terms of difficulty in securing employment/investment opportunities, high cost of consumer goods/food, poor farm production, lack of beneficial market for farm produce, constrains in public amenities and continuous uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land due to population expansion. The economic strategic plan is based on sustainable up-scaling of the millennium village project to regional level and the economic transformation programs of Malaysia, Singapore and China. The constitution of Kenya, successful millennium village projects reports - sustainable and scaling the millennium villages: moving from rural investment to national development plans to reach the MDGs, sessional paper no. 3 of 2009 on national land policy, mutual consultations, news rooms & newspapers and other literature resources informed the development process.

The proposed developments are modeled on the Nairobi Metropolitan Development Authority (NMDA) structures proposed by the ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development - Kenya, and the currently up-coming public and private sector developed dynamic and mixed-use cities and resorts exemplified by Kilamba Kiaxi - Angola, Konza Technology City www.konzacity.co.ke , the famous Tatu City www.tatucity.com, Sergoit Golf & Wildlife Resort www.sergoit.co.ke, Migaa www.migaa.com and Thika Greens’ residential resort www.thikagreens.co.ke. Such developments indicate the direction of investment opportunities and wealth creation. All participatory socio-economic development scheme like the one proposed here-is enhances human dignity, equity, social integration, social justice, inclusiveness, equality, human rights, non-discrimination and protection of the poor and disadvantaged/marginalized groups in the society. The proposed logo is modeled on athlete’s talent and emphasizes the presence of talent bestowed upon everyone by God and the need for such talent to be properly utilized for the good of communities and protection of dignity of life for everyone. In this respect, one’s visions & ideas for prosperity should be extended to prosper all as the anonymous saying “wealth doesn’t start with cash; it starts with vision, ideas and information”. We envision total support of the political leadership, Rift Valley Community and beyond in the full development and eventual implementation of the scheme for realization of its sacred dreams. Rift Valley Professionals Forum & Rift Valley Youth Forum


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The newly enacted Kenyan constitution provides enabling legislations and environment for various county governments sharing a common interest and vision to form joint authorities. One of the most notable provisions is that that allows different county governments to co-operate in the performance of their constitutional functions and in exercising powers through formation of joint committees and authorities [i.e. article 189(2)]. It is with that understanding that herein is proposed formation of a joint authority by Rift Valley Community’s county governments, to be named Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA), and a joint committee to be named Rift Valley Development Authority management committee. With fiscal budget constrains, it is highly unlikely for any single or the jointly cooperating county governments to mobilize enough capital to invest in capital intensive developmental projects, thus, it is proposed formation of a public-private partnership between the co-operating county governments and their respective private investor residents and strategic investors. This will ensure attainment of enough capital for investment in capital intensive developmental projects; it is herein projected mobilization of Kenya shillings 1-2 (2-5) (5-10) trillion investment capital within a ten year initial investment period.

Considering the rapid increase in population in Rift Valley and constraints in provisions of infrastructures and other goods/services, there is need to mitigate uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land, thus, it is proposed formation of industrial cities, county resource centers, constituency resource centers and ward resource centers to act as cluster settlement sites and to facilitate provision of basic infrastructure, amenities/goods/services, in addition to formation of rural development companies to spearhead job and wealth creation in rural areas. The investment site will host a number of capital intensive developmental ventures like training institutions, farm produce processing plants, consumer goods manufacturing and supply chains amongst other developmental investments. These developments will provide profitable ready market for farm produce, employment and investment opportunities, affordable consumer goods and services, and enhance promotion of social justice and human rights as indicated in the chapter on bill of rights-through the subsidized consumer goods/services, income and humanitarian activities offered by fully owned not-for profit organization i.e. SICNET.

In the side of marketing of investments’ products and services, to ensure ready market and attainment of sizeable market niche locally and penetration of export market, the principle of contract farming, economies of scale, economic integration and industrial concentrations will be promoted in/among the RVDA companies to lower cost of production, at the same time, it is proposed each of the member county governments to remit at least 30% of its yearly allocations by the national government and their residents investors and strategic investors to invest 233.33% of their respective county governments contributions i.e. top-up the 30% to 100%. These allocations will act as subsidy to the investment by the residents and for that reason, will attract not profit. In addition, a common naming/branding system and advertisement slogan will be adopted by all RVDA companies. Therefore, all the goods and services from the RVDA will attract only 70% profit margin comparative to goods and services offered by unsubsidized private ventures. It is envisioned that support will be attained from the Rift Valley leadership, community members and Kenyans in general.


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TABLE OF CONTENTSSPECIAL REQUESTS ....................................................................................................ii COPYRIGHT ................................................................................................................. iv FORWARD .................................................................................................................... v EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................ vi TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………………………vi TABLE OF TABLES ...................................................................................................... x TABLE OF FIGURES ................................................................................................... xi ACRONYMS AND INITIALS ..................................................................................... xii CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................. 1 1.0. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1

1.1. Background Information ....................................................................................... 1 1.2. The Problem ......................................................................................................... 2 1.3. Vision ................................................................................................................... 2 1.4. Mission ................................................................................................................. 2 1.5. Objectives ............................................................................................................. 2 1.5.1. Overall Objectives ............................................................................................. 2 1.5.2. Specific Objectives ............................................................................................ 3 1.6. Expected Output/Outcome .................................................................................... 4 1.7. Justification .......................................................................................................... 4

CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................................ 6 2.0. RIFT VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RVDA) ..................................... 6

2.1. Establishment of “Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA)”.......................... 6 2.1.1. Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) ......................................................... 7

2.1.2. Rift Valley Ethics & Standards Bureau (RVE&SB) ........................................ 8 2.1.3. Rift Valley Products & Services Exhibitions Board (RVP&SEB) ................... 9 2.1.4. Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) ............................................. 10 2.1.5. Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB) ........................................................... 11 2.1.5.1. Mutual Fund Management Division .......................................................... 11 2.1.5.2. Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU) ............................................................... 11 2.1.5.3. Rift Valley Stock Exchange (RVSE) ......................................................... 11 2.1.5.4. Research and Development (R&D) Division ............................................. 12 2.1.5.4a.Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI) ........................................ 12 2.1.5.4b. Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI) ................................ 13

2.2. Directorship of RVDA ........................................................................................ 13 2.3. Staffing of RVDA ............................................................................................... 14

CHAPTER THREE ....................................................................................................... 16 3.0. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION STRATEGY ......................................................... 16

3.1. Resource Mobilization Strategy Instruments ....................................................... 16 3.2. Mutual Fund Mobilization Scheme ..................................................................... 18 3.3. Total Mutual Fund Mobilization ......................................................................... 20 3.4. Strategic Investors/Firms/Companies Investment in RVDA ................................ 20

CHAPTER FOUR ......................................................................................................... 22 4.0. INVESTMENT STRATEGY ................................................................................. 22

4.1. Rift Valley Community SWOT Analysis ............................................................ 22 4.2. Investment Policy Instruments ............................................................................ 25 4.3. Mutual Fund Investment Projects Overview ........................................................ 26

4.4. Financial Capital Allocation……………………………………………………...27


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4.5. Rural Development Companies ........................................................................... 36 4.5.1. Agricultural Development Companies .......................................................... 36 4.5.1.1. Specific Companies under Agricultural Development Companies ............. 38 4.5.1.1a. Rift Valley Irrigation Development (RVID) Group .................................. 38 4.5.1.1b. Rift Valley Horticultural Development (RVHD) Group ........................... 38 4.5.1.1b1. Rift Valley Dairy Development (RVDD) Group .................................... 40 4.5.1.1b2. Rift Valley Ranching Group .................................................................. 41 4.5.1.2. Rift Valley Fisheries Development (RVFD) Group ................................... 41 4.5.1.3. Agricultural Development Implementations Strategy ................................ 42 4.5.2. Rural Development Agro-Processing Companies ......................................... 43 4.5.3. Rural Development Natural Resource Utilizing Companies .......................... 43

4.6. Resource Centres ................................................................................................ 44 4.6.1. Ward Resource Centres ................................................................................ 44 4.6.2. Constituency Resource Centres .................................................................... 46 4.6.3. County Resource Centres ............................................................................. 46

4.7. The Proposed Modern Towns ............................................................................. 49 4.7.1. Nanyuki Town ............................................................................................. 50 4.7.2. Samburu Town ............................................................................................. 50 4.7.3. Kitale Town ................................................................................................. 50 4.7.4. Lodwar Town............................................................................................... 50 4.7.5. Kaplong Town ............................................................................................. 51

4.8. The Proposed Specialized Cities ......................................................................... 51 4.8.1. Specialized Cities Establishment Policy Instruments .................................... 51 4.8.2. City and Modern Town Planning Guiding Principles .................................... 52 4.8.2.1. Division of Specialized Cities into Hubs.................................................... 53 4.8.3. Nakuru Commercial City ............................................................................. 53 4.8.4. Eldoret Industrial City .................................................................................. 57 4.8.5. Kajiado Resort City ...................................................................................... 61

4.9. Specialized Cities and Modern Towns Based Company Groups Samples ............ 64 4.9.1. Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT) ............................................. 64 4.9.2. Rift Valley Medical University (RVMU) ..................................................... 65 4.9.3. Nakuru Horticultural Development (NHD) Group ........................................ 66 4.9.4. Rift Valley Bio-Medical (RVBM) Group ..................................................... 66 4.9.5. Rift Valley Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (RVPM) Group .......................... 66 4.9.6. Rift Valley Transports (RVT) Group ............................................................ 67 4.9.7. Rift Valley Housing (RVH) Group ............................................................... 68 4.9.8. Rift Valley Petro-Chemicals (RVPC) Group ................................................ 69

4.9.9. Rift Valley Electric Power (RVEP) Group…………………………………..67 4.9.10. Rift Valley Hotels (RVH) Group ................................................................ 70 4.9.11. Rift Valley Water & Sanitation (RVWS) Group. ........................................ 72 4.9.12. Rift Valley Construction (RVC) Group ...................................................... 72 4.9.13. Rift Valley Talents (RVT) Group ............................................................... 73 4.9.14. Valmart Group ........................................................................................... 73 4.9.14.1. Wholesale-Retail Hubs ............................................................................ 74 4.9.15. Rift Valley Electrical & Electronics (RVEE) Group ................................... 75


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4.9.16. Rift Valley Information Technology (RVIT) Group ................................... 76 4.9.17. Rift Valley Security Services (RVSS) Group .............................................. 76

4.10. Investment Land Acquisition ............................................................................ 77 4.11. Investment Priority Projects .............................................................................. 80 4.12. Market Competitiveness ................................................................................... 81 CHAPTER FIVE ....................................................................................................... 84 5.0. RVDA INTER-RELATIONSHIPS ..................................................................... 84 5.1. RVDA Inter-relationship with Member County Governments ............................. 84 5.1.1. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Application Service Provider (ASP) 84 5.2.1. RVDA-LEDA-PDA Special Cooperation ......................................................... 87

6.0. CHAPTER SIX ................................................................................................. 88 6.0. The Proposed “Samaritans’ Initiative for Change Network (SICNET)”................... 88 CHAPTER SEVEN ....................................................................................................... 92 7.0. THE ECONOMIC STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE ........ 92

7.1. Conceptualization of Economic Strategic Plan .................................................... 92 7.2. Rift Valley Professionals and Youth Forums’ Concept Note ............................... 92 7.3. Arousal of Public Opinion .................................................................................. 92 7.4. Development of Detailed Economic strategic plan .............................................. 92 7.5. Implementing leadership election campaign strategy ........................................... 92 7.6. Approval of the Final Detailed Economic strategic plan and Requisite Bills........ 94 7.7. Community Awareness/Mobilization Campaign ................................................. 94 7.8. Launching of RVDA ........................................................................................... 94 7.9. Assimilation to the Community........................................................................... 94 7.10. RVDA entities Incorporation and Commissioning ............................................ 94 7.11. Supportive Industrial Incorporation ................................................................... 95 7.12. Investment Land Acquisition, Demarcation and Servicing ................................ 95 7.13. RVIB managed companies Incorporation .......................................................... 95 7.14. Continues Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................... 96

CHAPTER EIGTH ........................................................................................................ 97 8.0. CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................... 97 ANNEX ........................................................................................................................ 98

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TABLE OF TABLES

Table 1: Rift Valley Community SWOT Analysis…………………………………………....22 Table 2: The Investment/Development Concept Map…………….…………………………..26 Table 3: Financial Capital Resources Allocation to Proposed Companies……………………27 Table 4: Water sources for crop agricultural development subsidiary companies……………38 Table 5: Ward Resource Centre Land Use Plan………………………………………………43 Table 6: Constituency Resource Centre Land Use Plan………………………………………44 Table 7: County Resource Centre Land Use Plan……………………………………………..45 Table 8: Towns Land Use Plan………………………………………………………………..47 Table 9: Nakuru Commercial City Land Use Plan……………………………………………52 Table 10: Eldoret Industrial City Land Use Plan……………………………………………...56 Table 11: Kajiado Resort City Land Use Plan………………………………………………...60 Table 12: Proposed Model for RVDA Inter-relationship with Member County Governments.83 Table 13: Talents Fund Land and Capital Allocations………………………………………...86 Table 14: Implementation Time Frame………………………………………………………..94


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TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1: The Proposed Specialized Cities and Modern Towns………………………………46 Figure 2: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Tatu City…………………………………….53 Figure 3: Picture of the most beautiful University…………………………………………….54 Figure 4: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Sergoit Golf & Wildlife Resort……………...54 Figure 5: The site of the proposed Eldoret Industrial City……………………………………55 Figure 6: A views of downtown San Jose…………………………………………………….57 Figure 7: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Konza Technology City……………………..58 Figure 8: The site of the proposed Kajiado Resort City………………………………………59 Figure 9: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Kilamba Kiaxi Resort City…………………..61 Figure 10: Railway network run on elevated platform…..........................................................66 Figure 11: The proposed RVDA logo…………………………………………………….…...80 Figure 12: The proposed RVDA flag……..………………………………………….……….81


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ACRONYMS AND INITIALS AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome CDF: Constituency Development Fund ConRC: Constituency Resource Centre CRC: County Resource Centre HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hq: Headquarters IC: Industrial City KES: Kenya Shillings KPLC: Kenya Power & Lighting Company MDGs: Mellennium Development Goals NLP: National Land Policy RVC: Rift Valley Community RVCB: Rift Valley Commercial Bank RVDA: Rift Valley Development Authority RVIB: Rift Valley Investment Bank RVIPI: Rift Valley Investment Pollicy Institute SICNET: Samaritans’ Initiative for Change Network SME: Small and Medium Enterprises WRC: Ward Resource Centre


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CHAPTER ONE

1.0. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background Information

Kenyan Rift Valley is an expansive region covering a total area of 171,114 km2 (29.95% of Kenyan land mass – bigger than the whole Israel) compost of 14 counties and has close proximity to both Indian Ocean and landlocked East African countries, and its Nakuru County being strategically situated at national population wise and transport infrastructural network central point (Annex 2). It is one of the regions with high demographic trends catalyzed by high fertility rates and population size. According to 2009 population and housing census, the region is compost of over 10 million people. Geographically, the region is compost (contains) of 45% of the national arable land, and has all the climatic/agro-ecological zones i.e. arid, semi-arid, grassland/tropical-savanna and woodland/rainforest/high altitude zones. It has enormous rechargeable underground water reserves i.e. aquifers that are enough to irrigate all the Rift Valley land mass including 2/3 of Turkana county, the aquifers are namely: (1) Mt. Kilimanjaro aquifer, (2) Rift aquifers (these includes: L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer linked to L. Magadi and L. Bogorisa via Menengai, L. Baringo aquifer linked to Logipi springs, Mau Complex aquifer extending to Uasin Gishu County and L. Victoria, and (3) Mt. Elgon aquifer that extend to cover 2/3 of Turkana county, and (4) finally proximity to Merti aquifer which can be used to irrigate Samburu county in cooperation with Isiolo County people. It has substantial mineral deposits which include: carbon dioxide, corundum (ruby), diatomite, fluorspar, garnets, gold, gypsum, limestone and soda/soda ash/salt. Tourist attraction sites, vast & diverse social-cultural heritage & sports talents, water towers and water bodies are also plenty. Due to its unique geography, the region is suitable for almost all socio-economic and advanced industrial activities. In terms of infrastructure, it has relatively good railway network, road network – traversed by Northern Corridor, and regional airstrips and an international airport & close proximity to other international airports namely: Kisumu International Airport and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. It is a fact; it is endowed with enormous natural and artificial resources that require harnessing for sustainable socio-economic development; creating employment opportunities, generating income, reducing poverty and improving livelihoods and fostering self-reliance of Rift Valley Community (RVC), Kenya and beyond.

Kenya has enacted a new constitutional and legislations that provides an enabling environment for community resource mobilization and development. Therefore, there is need for professionals, political leadership and every body else to team-up and mobilize their communities towards sustainable community development. It is upon the strategists/innovators/designers and the influential persons to take-up the challenge of redirecting energies and resources towards realization of social goods. Thus, Rift Valley Professional Forum & Rift Valley Youth Forum have developed the concept note here-is to act as the starting point in socio-economic advancement, and strengthening of social-cohesion and promotion of social justice and human rights in the Rift Valley Community. It is a community development scheme based on public-private-partnership model with Rift Valley Community’s


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County governments being public partner and Rift Valley Community residents and strategic investors being private investor partners at a shareholding ratio of 3:7. The proposed name of the authority to manage the scheme is Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA). It is projected that the authority will have mobilized approximately Kenya shillings (KES) 1-2 (2-5) (5-10) trillion by the year 2024, and at that year have asset value of between 20-50 trillion mainly due to sharp appreciation of land based property and re-invested profits.

1.2. The Problem

There is high population growth rate in Counties within Kenyan Rift Valley (Rift Valley Community) which has led to uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land and constrains in the provision of basic infrastructure and public amenities. There is low level of agricultural production in addition to limited profitable markets for the farm produce, employment and investment opportunities, and consumer goods’ high prizes are constraining low income earners. Value addition of locally produced natural resources and farm produce is still limited. Fulfillment of human rights as indicated in the chapter on bill of rights in the Kenyan constitution is also a great challenge. Residents of Arid and semi-Arid zones frequently suffer from the recurrent food insecurity associated with loss of human dignity and life. Furthermore, sexual exploitation of desperate youth with the promise of employment/income generating opportunities in addition to limitations on advocacy on behaviour change is still the culprit behind major proportion of HIV/AIDS transmission. Therefore, there is need to ingeniously, comprehensively, holistically and permanently address these challenges.

1.3.Vision

A holistic development scheme that provides sustainable socio-economic, behavioral and spiritual development, and promote social-cohesion in Rift Valley Community (RVC) and beyond, pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect.

1.4.Mission

To promote and improve the livelihood, social-cohesion and dignity of life of Rift Valley Community members and beyond through a mutually inclusive development scheme

1.5.Objectives

1.5.1. Overall Objectives

To attain the vision the overall objectives include the following:- 1. to socio-economically empower the Rift Valley Community and beyond, and

improve their livelihood ensuring all the people lead a dignified live devoid of exploitation and discrimination;

2. to provide an opportunity to harness and promote local talents, skills and abilities for community advancement;

3. to provide quality and affordable goods/services to Rift Valley Community and beyond;


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4. to enable Rift Valley Community members to participate in all development initiatives and decision making processes with regard to sustainable use of their natural resources, marketing of their farm produce, and manufacture & supply of their consumer goods – promote community responsibility rather than waiting for someone else to do it for them;

5. to provide internship placement for school leavers and college graduates, hence promoting mentorship linkages, therefore, facilitating their development into responsible citizens, at the same time protecting them from job market exploitation, financial exploitation, sexual exploitation (HIV/AIDS) and idleness;

6. to provide investment opportunities at subsidized operational cost to Rift Valley Community and beyond and in turn generate employment opportunities;

7. to facilitate cluster settlement for easier provision of infrastructure and social amenities and hence mitigate uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land;

8. to facilitate agricultural diversification, adoption of agricultural technology and other innovative farming techniques in crop/animal husbandry and produce marketing;

9. to promote Rift Valley social-cohesion through shared development opportunities; 10. to facilitate fulfillment of social justice & human rights as indicated in the chapter

on bill of rights in the Kenyan constitution.

1.5.2. Specific Objectives

To realize the above overall objectives, the specific objectives are to establish and operate a number of projects by 2023, which include the following.

1. To mobilize resources and invest in impact development projects; 2. to incorporate and manage Rural Development Companies to assist the rural

residents to exploit their natural resources at all agro-ecological and economic zones within RVC and beyond;

3. to establish, finance and manage companies in all the sectors of the economic to be based in the following developed economic zones: a. Ward resource centre in every ward throughout RVC; b. Constituency resource centre in every constituency in RVC; c. County resource centre in every county throughout RVC; d. five modern towns and 3 Specialized Cities at strategic economic zones in

RVC; e. extra-communal markets at strategic sites in Kenya and EAC;

4. to establish, fund, supervise and coordinate an non-for profit organization to promote humanitarian relief activities, social justice, social-cohesion and friendship within RVC and beyond;

5. to establish any necessary public body to ensure orderly and proper functioning of the development scheme.


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1.6. Expected Output/Outcome

At the end of the initial 10 year investment period (by the year 2024) the following milestones are expected:

1. Mobilization and investment of KES1-2 (2-5) (5-10) trillion and attainment of asset value of between KES 20-50 trillion, mainly due to sharp appreciation of land based property, increased public fund allocations and re-invested profits.

2. availability of affordable consumer goods to Rift Valley Community and beyond;

3. creation/availability of above 3 million employment opportunities; 4. availability of several investment opportunities; 5. mitigation of uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land; 6. social integration, cohesion and friendship up-held within RVC and beyond; 7. reduction in HIV/AIDS transmission rates and good care for the infected and

affected persons & enhanced dignity of life and standards of living of the RVC members.

8. enhanced agricultural production due to adoption of innovative agro-technology;

9. availability of ready and profitable market for agricultural produce;

1.7. Justification

Given that the RVDA will have a clear chain of expatriates and local expertise in each economic and social sector, down from specialized RVDA entities to company groups and implementing subsidiary companies. The authority will make use of a single command of expatriates/local experts to assist all the member county government in implementing their functions that include the following as indicated in the Kenyan constitution - fourth schedule part 2: agriculture (crop & animal husbandry; plant & animal disease control & fisheries), county health services (county health facilities & pharmacies; ambulance services; public health; veterinary services; refuse removal; refuse dumps & solid waste disposal), environmental conservation, cultural activities/public entertainment (libraries; video shows; sports; recreational & cultural activities organizations and respective facilities development), provide subsidized county road construction service, trade development (construction of markets; promotion of local tourism and cooperatives societies), county planning and development (provision of land use plans and implementation protocols; housing provision; electricity generation & subsidized supply), provision of village polytechnics/home-craft centres/childcare facilities, implementation of policies on natural resource exploitation and environmental conservation (soil & water conservation), county public works and services (storm water management systems in built-up areas; and water & sanitation services); fire fighting services and disaster management and control of drug abuse & pornography serviced by RVDA’s SICNET. As indicated by the extent of county government functions implemented by the RVDA, the annual budgetary recurrent expenditure of member county governments will be greatly reduced as the much work remaining is mainly supervisory, policy/legislative and enforcement responsibilities, leading to increased county government developmental expenditures. Thus, it is justifiable for the member county governments to subsidize the


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operations of the public-private partnership joint ventures supervised and coordinated by RVDA to the extent of 30%, so that the goods/products and services of international standards offered by RVDA are affordable to the common citizens (wananchi) and for penetration of export market.

Kenyan economic growth is largely driven by thriving micro enterprises and small and medium enterprises (SME), however, farm produce prices at the production point remains relatively much low as compared with the high cost of farm production and consumer goods/foods and services. Why low farm produce price at production point and high cost of farm production and consumer goods/foods/services? The reason is micro enterprises and SME!!! The more the chain (or linked SMEs) of small enterprises operating in between the farmer and eventual consumer, the lower the price the first buyer buys from the farmer and the higher the price of the farm produce at the tail end of the chain – which is the eventual consumer, and in the same manner in the opposite direction for farm inputs (as the farmers are the consumers of farm inputs). Every SME along the marketing/supply chain needs to make huge/substantial profits at the expense of the eventual consumer and original producer (farmer/manufacturer/mining investor/entertainer/athlete). As is SME the cause of high prizes for consumer goods, small scale farming is the culprit behind high cost of food due to its uneconomical farming methods and lack of economies of scale i.e. high cost of food production. Therefore, to improve the living standard of everyone in a sustainable manner, and penetrate export market, there is need to adopt the principle of contract-farming, economies of scale and economic integration leading to reduction in the chains of enterprises operating between the producer and consumer. This can be attained by merging the SMEs into a much bigger entity that can connect directly the producer and consumer. In fact, that was the socio-economic principle behind the establishment of millennium village projects in different poverty stricken regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, which as brought a great success, and here-is proposed to be up-scaled from village to regional levels.

Bearing in mind the above arguments, RVDA endeavors to incorporate specific locations concentrated large - mass production/service companies that will directly connect the producer and consumer through contract farming, economic integration and industrial concentration coupled with operations subsidy and benefit of economics of scale. With the service of international experts serving RVDA through its think-tank arm; RVIPI/RVBRI, and technology transfer offered by the strategic investors holding 19% shareholding in companies under RVDA, cutting edge technology, management and governance will be employed throughout the companies under RVDA translating to reduced cost of production of quality produce/goods and services of international standards, and hence lower selling prices. It is envisioned RVDA will positively turn-around ways of doing business and promoting social justice and human rights. A mutually inclusive and participatory development scheme is the viable strategy for resolution of socio-economic, integration and social-cohesion problems affecting Rift Valley Community and beyond.


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CHAPTER TWO

2.0. RIFT VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RVDA)

2.1. Establishment of “Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA)”

1. Within 3 months of formation of County governments, Counties within Rift Valley Community will enact legislations to set-up a joint Authority named “Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA)”, a joint committee to manage the joint Authority named “Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA) management committee” (secretariat) and the joint Authority’s public fund to be named as “Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF)”, which shall comprise member County governments’ annual 30% contributions/allocations to RVDA. The legislation shall provide for need of referendum in each of the member Counties for repeal or amendment to the legislation. The County governments will at the same time legislate other laws necessary or incidental to proper functioning of the joint Authority as herein proposed.

2. Within 3 months of formation of the next National government, the government will enact legislations necessary or incidental to proper functioning of cooperating County governments’ joint Authorities as herein proposed. Such legislations will indicate National government’s functions and powers to be transferred to County governments for the later to delegate to their respective joint Authority for implementation.

3. The Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF) shall be used by the RVDA management committee (secretariat) to fully finance acquisition of investment land and to hold 30% of shareholding in the public-private partnership joint venture companies - in behalf of member County government, such 30% shareholding shall act as subsidy of the companies production/operation processes and incentive to attract private investments, else, will attract no profit.

4. Upon its establishment, RVDA management committee shall establish/facilitate establishment of Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) which shall be profit oriented fully public entity, Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) & Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB) which shall be public-private partnership joint venture commercial (profit oriented) entities co-owned by RVDA (in behalf of member County governments), member County residents and strategic investor(s) in the ratio 30:51:19. Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB) will be tusked to establish using mutual funds, and manage other public-private partnership companies co-owned according to the stated ratio.

5. The RVDA management committee shall establish/facilitate establishment, co-ordinate and supervise 3 other functionally independent but mutually cooperating fully public institutions namely: Rift Valley Ethics and Standards Bureau (RVE&SB), Rift Valley Products & Services Exhibition Board (RVP&SEB) and Samaritans’ Initiative for Change Network (SICNET). These are to be non-profit making institutions operated using the public-private partnership joint venture companies’ annual commissions to their respective funds.


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6. In behalf of member County Governments, Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA) shall hold 30% interest in RVDB, RVIB and all companies managed by RVIB. However, given that RVDA is non-profit making institution, its shareholding attracts no profit, and thus acts as subsidy to RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed company’s day-to-day operations (Table 1).

2.1.1. Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB)

1. The development bank will offer banking services that include sourcing for loans from other developmental banks, developmental partners/agencies, state corporations, states and others. Take deposits and giving out loans to customers.

2. It will provide and promote an integrated payment electronic-system that include credit card, mobile money transfer service in collaboration with Valley Telecoms, and e-banking service to its customers to facilitate simplified, safe and transparent business transactions that include operating ticketing system for Rift Valley Hotel Group and other companies.

3. To provide pension scheme for RVDA workers and others. 4. To provide Islamic banking services. 5. Shall be the custodian of all RVDA’s entities and RVIB managed companies

accounts/funds, and as such will award and manage redemption of Customer Points to/by all customers in behalf RVP&SEB.

6. The bank to layout strategies that will enable it to maximize customer numbers and customer deposits for its eventual lending to its borrowers, the strategies includes: a. Once incorporated, to establish its branches in RVC constituency resources

centres and non-member counties constituency headquarters within the first 6 months and 1 year respectively. In addition, branches in major towns in East and Central Africa within 18 months;

b. To charge bank account operation fee that is significantly less comparatively to other banks;

c. To offer relatively high interest rates to customer deposits; d. To strive to always satisfy customer demands innovatively; e. To enlist subsidiary companies under Valmart Group as agents to enable easier

access of bank services up to local market levels. 7. The bank to automatically underwrite 45.9% out of the 51% shareholding by

residents in all RVIB managed companies during incorporation bending loaning to respective residents as indicated below;

8. The Bank shall endeavor to allocate loans to all RVDA member county government residents investing in RVIB managed companies. In a manner that when one buys 1 share in cash in RVIB managed company, one is given loan worth 9 shares, up to a maximum of shares worth 7.56 millions. The loan is to be serviced for 10 years with grace period of 3 years – literally the loan is to be serviced by resident’s dividends obtained out of the shareholding.

9. Valley Pension Scheme Ltd is to invest pension fund in residential housing targeting the lower economic segment.


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10. Set aside loan funds to be allocated to either national government or RVIB managed company under public-private partnership agreement with national government to enable development/up-grade of a number of transport infrastructure that includes: a. Up-grade and electrification of Kenya-Uganda railway and extension to

Southern Sudan via Lodwar Town. b. Extension of oil pipeline to Southern Sudan via Kitale-Lodwar route. c. Extension of Kisumu-Kakamega-Bungoma highway to Southern Sudan via

Kitale-Lodwar route. d. Establishment twelve lane dual carriage ways connecting Nairobi city – Konza

Technology city – Kajiado CBD – Athi River town. Highways covered by the special project to be upgraded to between 8 and 12 lane dual carriage ways with exclusive lanes for PSV buses.

e. Construction of Greater Southern By-pass connecting Naivasha-Suswa-Ngong-Kitengela-Lukenya.

2.1.2. Rift Valley Ethics & Standards Bureau (RVE&SB)

1. Regularly perform RVDA investment companies/projects audit, monitoring & evaluation and submit its reports to RVDA management committee and member county assembly;

2. To investigate corrupt practices with conjunction with relevant authorities and report to RVDA management committee, member county assembly and other authorities;

3. To work in conjunction with relevant national and county authorities in implementation of her day to day functions;

4. To establish, regularly update and confidentially manage personal and economic database of all RVDA employees so that any possible conflict of interest are noticed and appropriately addressed and to enable enforcement of international ethical standards.

5. In collaboration with RVIPI and RVDA’s companies human resource departments, to establish and manage staff accreditation systems to raise professional standards.

6. RVDA and its projects are to be open to monitoring and evaluation by relevant member county governments’ and national government offices/authorities/commissions, for example, Auditor-General, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and others.

7. RVDA management committee will regularly appoint an independent firm to audit, monitor and evaluate RVE&SB, generate a report and submit to the committee and member county assembly.


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2.1.3. Rift Valley Products & Services Exhibitions Board (RVP&SEB)

1. To spearhead branding and exhibition of RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed companies’ products and services world wide.

2. To design, manufacture and distribute world wide small-in-size but ornamental regularly useful products bearing RVDA’s logo/trade mark and RVDA’s entities or RVIB managed companies’ products and services label, such ornaments may include: key holders, hand-kerchiefs, caps, head-gears, leso, small handled spotlights, notebooks, flash disks/memory sticks, DVD & VCD cassettes showcasing cultural festivals or RVDA Chairman’s/Chairlady’s tournaments with clips of relevant products and service, documentaries indicating Rift Valley beauty and cultural diversity and other tourisms attraction clips.

3. To offer customer points via outsourcing of RVDB credit card data service, the customer points offered based on amount of money one uses in transactions as a customer to RVDB, RVIB and/or RVIB managed companies. The customer points are to be redeemed by use in obtaining RVHG’s tourism, entertainment and leisure services and in attendance of annual Rift Valley Cultural Festivals. RVP&SEB will use its annual commission to fund redemption of customer points.

4. In collaboration with SICNET, RVTG, RVHG and RVDB, RVP&SEB is to plan and facilitate the whole year long tournaments and the annual 1 month long (December) Rift Valley Cultural Festivals.

5. The cultural festivals will feature traditional songs/poems and sports competitions for [County] Governor’s cup and RVDA Chairman’s/Lady’s cup, that run from all the Ward Resource Centre sports ground to the finals which is to be held in Kajiado/Nakuru/Eldoret International Conference Centre and the host city’s sports complex. Different wards and subsidiary/company groups will participate. The tournament competitions will start from January at the Ward level and end during the 1 month (December) festivals at the City. The cups under different categories will fetch lucrative cash awards. Cultural festivals will also involve national and international tournaments and events.

6. Throughout the tournaments competitions and cultural festivals RVP&SEB shall endeavor to utilize the opportunity to exhibit and promote RVDA companies’ products and services, while SICNET will endeavor to promote its mandates.

7. Throughout the 1 month cultural festivals, all the services and products of RVDA companies shall be offered at discounted rates, the discount is to be serviced by RVP&SED Fund, and the discount rates shall depend on the available RVP&SED Fund.

8. Rift Valley Products & Services Exhibitions Board (RVP&SEB) will also participate in the sponsorship of international events held in Kenya and abroad with the view to getting opportunities to exhibit and promote RVDA companies’ products and services.

9. It will also sponsor the operation of the proposed international TV channel named “Talents’ TV” (to be established, operated and managed by Valley TV Services Ltd.). This TV channel will only display Rift Valley and international eco-biodiversity documentaries, cultural festivals events, sport(s) tournament(s) events,


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and other talented artists’ events/creations, and at the same time run clips/displays that promote Rift Valley products & services.

10. To establish and operate international marketing exhibition centres globally

2.1.4. Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB)

1. Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) shall have original jurisdiction to acquire, plan for its use, demarcate, and lease out investment lands in behalf of member county governments (RVDA).

2. The management structure of RVILB shall be designed in such a way that corrupt practices in land acquisitions will not be thought of or even conceived.

3. All the land acquired by RVILB shall be regarded as public land and thus be under management as public land; it shall be acquired using solely money budgeted from Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF).

4. To acquire investment land according to provisions indicated in the sub-section on investment land acquisition;

5. develop or facilitate development of detailed special plan for the proposed Cities, Towns and Resource Centres;

6. demarcate the investment land as per the spatial plan, and establish indicated public utilities that include road network, water & sanitation infrastructure, communication info-structure, electric supply network, landscaping and beautifications among others;

7. Subsequently lease out the allocated investment plots to the allocated companies – each company to be allocated adequate plot for office block, commercial/industrial and residential estate for all the categories of her employees;

8. Pay out the original land owners their land sell bonuses and hand in the remainder cash to Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF) for re-allocation or otherwise the land is transferred to the allocated company as RVDA’s 30% shareholding in the respective company.

9. Upon completion of the investment land allocations, all the investments land reserves shall be leased out for a reasonable period of time to the host agricultural development subsidiary company(ies).

10. Allocated companies shall sub-lease all their land reserves for a reasonable period of time to local agricultural development subsidiary company(ies).

11. On completion of investment land development Rift Valley Metropolitan Council Group and its subsidiaries will take over management of the Cities/Towns/Resource Centres facilitating provision of public services & amenities, cleanliness & aesthetics and proper maintenance of road networks among others.

12. The lands board will be mandated to purchase any agricultural land on sell within member Counties and subsequently lease to host county agricultural development company(ies).


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2.1.5. Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB)

The general responsibilities of the investment bank will be:- 1. To receive investment capital from member county governments (i.e. RVDF), from

member County residents and from identified strategic investors, in total considered as mutual funds.

2. To invest the mutual funds (capital) and manage the joint investment ventures. 3. The bank to automatically underwrite 5.1% out of the 51% shareholding by

residents in all RVIB managed companies during incorporation period bending offloading to residents in exchange with cash.

4. To invest adequately on information technology to enable visibility and efficient online stock exchange and other securities trading requirement.

5. The bank will comprise of four divisions namely: a. Mutual Fund Management Division b. Outsourcing Liaison Unit c. Rift Valley Stock Exchange d. Research and Development (R&D) Division

2.1.5.1.Mutual Fund Management Division

This division will manage investment fund remitted by county governments and their respective resident investors.

2.1.5.2. Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU)

The general responsibilities of the unit include: 1. To facilitate outsourcing of RVDA services by member county governments and intra-

RVDA services outsourcing via use of an online automatic applications (Table 11). 2. To manage databases of RVDA entities’ and RVIB managed companies’ specialized

services provisions and service charges/fees and processes capable to lease out to other companies and the lease out rates.

3. To maintain database on the administrative structures and direct contacts and contact persons of all RVDA entities and RVIB managed companies, among other databases.

2.1.5.3. Rift Valley Stock Exchange (RVSE)

The general responsibilities of the unit includes:- 1. To facilitate RVDA entities’ and RVIB managed companies’ stock exchange; 2. To maintain database of RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed companies’ shareholding; 3. To prepare annual RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed companies’ shareholding report

to be presented to RVDA management committee and member county assemblies for verification on compliance on resource mobilization policy instruments. RVDA management committee shall accordingly discuss the report, in case of shareholding against resource mobilization policy instruments the committee may order RVSE to


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ensure resell of the shares and refund of shareholding capital to irregular investors, the investor shall be liable for fine.

4. To facilitate resource mobilization through floating of bonds and such like securities.

2.1.5.4. Research and Development (R&D) Division

1. Research & Development Division will be serviced by a special pool of funds to be called R&D Fund, the fund will be made-up of annual 2.5% (of net profit) contributions by all RVDA public-private partnership companies and projects. The fund will be directly managed by R&D directors answerable to RVIB.

2. The general responsibilities of the division are to coordinate and supervise 2 research and development (R&D) institutions namely:

a. Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI) b. Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI)

3. Research and Development (R&D) Division will regularly place an international, national and regional (RVC) call for research concept notes and subsequently full research proposals on RVDA/RVIB/RVDB R&D priority areas. Successful proposals authors will be considered for consultancy service contracts to implement the proposal for the benefit of RVDA. Such contracts shall clearly indicate the criteria for co-ownership of data and resultant patents rights by RVDA and the research team.

2.1.5.4a.Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI)

1) Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI) is to be the investment & management, and governance think-tank for the investment bank & other RVDA entities and member county governments.

2) RVIPI will appoint its employees competitively from within and without member counties and internationally.

3) The functions of RVIPI includes the following- a) RVIPI will draft legislations & policies to govern RVDA and regularly provide a

report on investments strategies to RVDA management committee and member county assembly;

b) Provide RVIB and the member county governments with detailed land use plans and implementation protocols/procedures/practices for every agro-ecological zone within member counties, and governance (policy/draft legislation bills) advice on the implementation of the plans;

c) Undertake research and development (R&D) on products and services of interest to RVDA. In this case, it will facilitate ICT Parks, Innovation Incubation Centres and relevant research projects, and foster collaboration with other R&D institutions and relevant industries;

d) To service Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Complex professional support needs; e) Its R&D centres and experiment plots will be hosted within teaching institutions to

enhance collaborations with teaching staff and research students, at the same time foster R&D capacity building of students from their early life;

f) The office of the director (RVIPI) will be hosted within Rift Valley University of Technology, Nakuru campus;


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g) In conjunction with SICNET, train member County residents on investment schemes’ benefits.

2.1.5.4b. Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI)

1. Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI) is to be the medical, environmental and occupational health research and development arm of R&D Division.

2. Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI) will appoint its employees competitively from within and without member counties and internationally.

3. Will assist in development of policies and legislation bills on RVMU’s area of mandate, and related company groups.

2.2. Directorship of RVDA

1. Rift Valley Development Authority’s (RVDA’s) entities: RVDB, SICNET, RVIB, RVE&SB and RVP&SEB will be under direct management of 15 members RVDA management committee.

2. The 15 member RVDA management committee will be compost of 14 county governors each elected in a member county and the RVDA Executive Secretary (E.S.); the committee will act as a joint committee constituted by co-operating county governments as per Kenyan constitution article 189(2). The committee will appoint the chairman/chairlady from elected members. They shall be in charge of the Rift Valley Development Fund.

3. Deputy Executive Secretary (D.E.S.) will deputize E.S. in the day-to-day co-ordination and supervision of the authority’s mandate.

4. RVDA chairman/chairlady and Vice chairman/chairlady shall be the authority’s policy spokespersons, while the E.S. and D.E.S. shall be the authority’s administrative spokespersons.

5. The Executive Secretary (E.S.) shall have powers to approve (without consulting the management committee) use of up to 10% of each SICNET fund category (fiscal years allocations) during emergency situation.

6. Directorship of RVDA’s entities shall be as per international standard practice in each entity’s field of specialization.

7. Rift Valley Development Authority management committee will approve the elevation of subsidiaries into independent company groups, and also establishment of new company groups or subsidiary companies according to recommendations of RVIB.


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2.3. Staffing of RVDA

1. The RVDA’s entities and RVIB managed companies will set-up various positions of service and appoint employees.

2. Terms of service for newly recruited employees will be 2/3 year contract renewable based on performance and satisfaction of specified training requirements.

3. 2/3 of the top 3 management positions and the chief executive officer’s position of each of the RVIB managed companies will be absolutely filled by persons seconded by the International/foreign firm/company owning the 19% shareholding in that specific company.

4. Regular review of employees’ qualifications and competitiveness to enable timely promotions of innovative design thinkers and patent producers and otherwise for non-competitive staff.

5. Excellent performers will have their terms of service converted into permanent and pensionable instate of renewal; however, above average performers will have renewal of their terms and otherwise for non-performers and those indicating corrupt practices.

6. Permanent employees will be encouraged to acquire residential houses through subsidized mortgage scheme; these will facilitate mitigation of uncontrolled subdivision of agricultural land and provision of basic amenities in a more sustainable way.

7. Salaries and remunerations payable to various positions of service shall be according to Salaries and Remunerations Committees’ recommendations plus appropriate allowances package especially for highly skilled experts and expatriates.

8. Rift Valley Development Authority’s tertiary institutions’ and universities’ students and studentship candidates to be given preferential part-time employment opportunities by all RVDA entities and RVIB managed companies, to enhance human resource development via use of part-time wages to access training opportunities by poor households’ youth/students. In this case, each RVDA entity and each RVIB managed company based in cities will set aside 30% basic employment positions and 50% experts’ positions of service in RVIB’s R&D division to be filled by half-day part-time tertiary institute/university students and consultant academic staff (via assignment of specialized area of research and funding of their research proposal) respectively. In this respect, all city based tertiary and university campuses will have 1 study system/model (out of the 4 system/models) which will tailor its time tables and semester lengths/periods to allow half the student population in that study system/model to be in class/lectures/practical e.t.c. in the morning hours and the other half in the after noon hours.

9. In recruitment, selection and appointment to positions of service, affirmative action will be instituted on qualified persons who are residents of the Rift Valley Community, or hosting county or state for subsidiaries established outside Rift Valley Community, such an affirmative action policy will be developed by RVIPI


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CHAPTER THREE

RESOURCE MOBILIZATION STRATEGY

Resource Mobilization Strategy Instruments

1. The initial resources mobilization target is KES 1–2 (2-5) (5-10) trillion within a 10 year initial investment/development period (by the year 2024) based on the shareholding formulae: 30% public (member county governments via RVDF): 70 % private investment (51% residents investment and 19% strategic investors shareholdings);

2. Strategic investors will be selected based on their expression of interests, willingness to transfer technology, willingness of the strategic investor’s host (home) state bank or development agency to advance the specific RVDA’s commercial entity or/and RVIB managed company of interest and/or member county governments with long-term concessional loans to be contributed to RVDF, and in a manner that promotes international diplomacy.

3. The national government will be requested through bill to be introduced in parliament to set 252% of GDP as the upper ceiling for public debt (to be at bar with Japan, the third largest economy).

4. National government will be requested through a bill in parliament to allocated county governments at least 45% of the annual national revenue.

5. Each member county government to contribute to RVDF at least 30% of her annual national revenue allocated fund, further more, each member county government to source for long term concenssional loan to be serviced for 30 plus years to enable her to contribute KES 30 – 90 billion to the fund immediately, or otherwise RVDA will source for the long term loan to be serviced by the annual member Counties’ contributions to RVDF.

6. Shareholding by the county governments are non-profit oriented, rather they are to subsidize for the operational costs for the investments by their residents and the strategic investors and as incentive to attract resident & strategic investors investments in specific economic areas, hence leading to cheaper goods/products and services;

7. Donation and grants in cash or assets shall be considered as public fund that will comprise Rift Valley Development Fund.

8. A quota system based on one’s county government contribution to Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF) will be used during periods of intense competitive investment by county residents;

9. A resident can buy shares in RVDB, RVIB, Rift Valley Electric Power Group subsidiary companies, any city/town/abroad based RVIB managed company group or subsidiary, and companies and/or subsidiaries based in one’s county only i.e. a resident can not buy shares in a company or subsidiary based in another county and not within a city boundaries. Further more, one can not buy cumulative shares worth more than 0.001% of the total worth of all RVIB managed companies or shares in a company/subsidiary worth more than 10% of the total worth of that RVIB managed company or subsidiary i.e. one can buy any worth of shares in


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RVDB or RVIB. In calculating one’s cumulative shareholding, shares held in RVDB or/and RVIB shall no be considered. Abroad in this context shall mean outside RVDA Member County.

10. Member County residents’ children will be allowed and encouraged to invest in companies under RVDA via their trustees, while dual citizens working abroad and registered as Kenyan citizens hailing from member Counties will be considered as residents.

11. Special regard shall be accorded to heroes and heroines who have endured undue persecution as a result of their outstanding service to the community. In that respect, 51% shareholding in Koitalel arap Somoei Cultural Resort Ltd sponsored by SICNET Fund (Talent Fund) shall be equitably shared out to members of the Talai clan as reparation for their forefathers persecution during resistance to colonial rule on Nandi land.

12. Permanent employees will be allowed to invest as residents despite their nationality, however, such investment will be subjected to maximum limits;

13. To enable RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed companies to establish mass service providing institutions and/or mass production factories/manufacturing plants and/or farms, each RVIB managed companies will source for loans for her expansions as a corporate body from RVDB or elsewhere; the loans are to be serviced by the annual County government contributions (the balance of the contribution after subtracting the amount servicing the County government loan) to RVDF and private investments in terms of shares buying and the company’s incomes before calculations of profits and loss. The debt is to be serviced for 30 years with grace period of 10 years.

14. In particular, RVDB will source for long term loans from lending institutions to enable her to adequately serve its mandate to allocate loans to all RVDA member county government residents investing in RVIB managed companies. In a manner that when one buys 1 share in cash in RVIB managed company, one is given loan worth 9 shares, up to a maximum of shares worth 7.56 millions. The loan is to be serviced for 10 years with grace period of 3 years – literally the loan is to be automatically serviced by resident’s dividends obtained out of the shareholding, the bank will keep shares certificate as guarantee to the loan until fully serviced.

15. National government will be requested through economic expansion incentive bills to be introduced in parliament to institute tax breaks to regional development authorities’ imported goods and services in the following categories: construction raw materials, construction machinery, industrial plants’ installations, agricultural machinery and installations, international construction and equipment installation firms/experts’ tax breaks. The capital saved will be factored in as RVDF, hence benefiting the general public as subsidy to the goods/products and services offered.

16. The national government/county government will be requested through bills in parliament/county assembly to transfer ownership of currently existing regional development authorities’ assets e.g. KVDA, trans-county public service companies e.g. Rift Valley Water Services Board and Agricultural Development Corporations assets to RVDA (respective regional development authorities), the transferred assets will be considered as assets contributions by host County’s to RVDF.


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17. Any member county individual investor(s) will be allowed to transfer ownership of any investment asset for example land, infrastructure, company (e.g. university campus) to RVIB company(ies) in exchange of shares in the investment project/company after value addition and expansion;

18. Any company branch established outside Rift Valley Community is to be incorporated as a subsidiary of the company to which it is a branch. Equity in such a subsidiary will be traded independently by Rift Valley Stock Exchange (RVSE), the residents of the host county for Kenya or state for other states will hold up to 15.3% shareholding in such a subsidiary. If there is requirement for the host country citizens to own majority shareholding, then the 15.3% will be toped up to 51% using the 30% public shareholding and 5.7% due to residents’ investment, hence, leading automatically to no subsidization of the subsidiary production process/service provision.

Mutual Fund Mobilization Scheme

1. Each member county government is to remit at least 30% of its annual national revenue allocated funds.

2. The bank will invite residents of member county government (and strategic investors) to submit investment capital equivalent to 233.33% of their county government allocations (to top-up their County government’s contributions from 30% to 100% by investing 70%).

3. Mutual fund resource mobilization projection for the initial 10 year investment period is- a. as statistical projections indicates that Kenya will collect approx. KES 900

billion revenue in the fiscal year 2013/2014, each County government will be allocated in average approximately KES 3 billion for that year and more than that for subsequent years, if it subsequently contribute to RVDF 30% of its annual allocation, RVDF will get approximately KES 1 billion from each county government annually, if each county government secure loan guaranteed by the national government and serviced by the 1 billion allocated to RVDF, then each county will get a total of KES 30 billion loan to be serviced for 30-36 years, therefore, RVDF will be in a position to receive approx. a total of KES 420 billion from 14 county governments within the year 2013;

b. each of the 30% allocations from county government will be topped up to 100% by the 233.33% (of the county remitted money) investments by the county residents and strategic investors, therefore, county residents and strategic investors will invest 233.33% of KES 420 billion which is equal to KES 979.986 billion: If residents and strategic investors will respond swiftly to the call for investment capital, the 10 year fund mobilization target will be attained within 1 year i.e. 2013/2014 fiscal year.

c. Thus, the total contributions by county government to RVDF (and further to specific companies via RVDF) and county residents investment & strategic investors investment in specific companies under RVDA will be approximately KES 420 billion + KES 979.986 billion = KES 1.4 trillion.


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Total Mutual Fund Mobilization

1. When 15% of annual national revenue is allocation to County governments, RVDA can mobilize a total of KES 1.4 trillion. But, allocation of 30% of annual national revenue to developmental projects is logical, as it was the case in the fiscal year 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 national budget; thus, it is justifiable for the developmental budget to be implemented by County governments to attain equity in national development and resource allocations. At the same time the residents’ income and national revenue will be increasing due to RVDA developments’ positive national and socio-economic impacts. Therefore, there is possibility/it is logical for, of allocating county governments 45% of annual national revenue; 15% of revenue to cater for devolved recurrent expenditure and 30% for equitable development. This translate to RVDA mobilization of KES 1.4 trillion x 3 = KES 4.2 trillion.

2. But, the national revenue keeps on increasing, for that reason, the county governments will keep on having more allocations than the amount used in the above calculations, thus, RVDA can mobilize KES 5-10 trillion within the initial 10 year investment/development period.

Strategic Investors/Firms/Companies Investment in RVDA

1. Nineteen percent of RVBD, RVIB and in all RVIB managed companies/institutions shareholding will be reserved for strategic investment by international or foreign firms/companies/institutions to enable the companies to benefit from technology expertise/inventions patent rights transfer, managerial skills, international marketing skills, international connections and co-operations. Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute/Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute will assist in vetting for qualified international/foreign firms to benefit from the shareholding; in addition it will regularly submit international/foreign investment status reports and recommendations to RVDA management committee and member county assembly.

2. The international/foreign firms/companies will be selected based on their expression of interests, technological advancement, and willingness to transfer their technology, to spearhead capacity development of local human resource in addition to provision of managerial support, and willingness of the host foreign state bank or development agency to advance the specific RVDA’s entity or/and RVIB managed company of interest and/or member county governments with long-term concessional loans to be contributed to RVDF, and in a manner that promotes international diplomacy.

3. Given that subsidiaries will be operating and traded in RVSE independently, different strategic investors can invest in different subsidiaries of a common company group. This is to enable production of variety of products and services e.g. pharmaceutical products and consumer goods.

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purchase of patent rights, or otherwise production of patented products immediately upon expiry of the patent rights period.

5. Any multinational/foreign/national company expressing interest to set-up its subsidiary company operating industrial plant(s) or service industries within the proposed RVDA urban centres or investment land, may be allowed in condition that it accepts to have the subsidiary company managed by RVIB and for RVC government & residents together or residents owning at least 15% shareholding in the subsidiary.

6. In a company or subsidiary company with foreign shareholding exceeding 19%, the shareholding due to RVDA (RVDF) in behalf of member County governments shall be the first to be waived – leading to reduced or no subsidization.


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CHAPTER FOUR

4.0. INVESTMENT STRATEGY

4.1. Rift Valley Community SWOT Analysis

Table 1: Rift Valley Community SWOT Analysis

Sub-Regions Economic Strengths, Opportunities, Weakness and Threats (i.e. SWOT) Nakuru sub-region (Nakuru, Narok, Bomet, Kericho, Laikipia, Baringo and Samburu County)

Economic Strengths and Opportunities:

a. Availability of vast, affordable and topographically well-formed land, notable is the extensive well drained Rongai plains fit to host an international airport and an internationally designed commercial city, and the Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology (RVIST) based on an extensive well-formed land suitable for elevation and diversification into University of Technology, Medical University, University Hospital and Institute of Technology HQ campuses.

b. Presence of a solid rechargeable Rift aquifer (underground water reservoir) that include L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer, Menengai-L. Bogoria-L. Baringo aquifer and Mau Complex aquifer.

c. Availability of extensive geothermal reserves in Nakuru and Baringo County and gold in Lolgorien –Narok County, and other minerals.

d. Availability of recognized international tourist attraction sites that include: L. Naivasha, L. Elmentaita, L. Nakuru, L. Bogoria, L. Baringo, L. Nakuru National Park, Hells’ Gate, Mt. Longonot, Soysambu Conservancy, Samburu National Game Reserve, Mau Complex, Masai Mara, and proximity to Aberdare Ranges and Mount Kenya. The famous Koibatek hill will provide exciting topographical night-view of the proposed Commercial City, its lower slopes private land will provide site for the top-caliber residential villas.

e. High population growth rate and density within the sub-region and the neighboring Mt. Kenya and South Nyanza region indicating reliable sources of human resource and consumer market, coupled with centrality in terms of national geography.

f. Good road infrastructural interconnectivity that include cross trans-section by the Northern Corridor.

Economic Weakness and Threats:

a. Some degree of illiteracy, socio-cultural & socio-economic beliefs and activities that hinder adoption of modern economic activities that include land consolidation, and letting go of land holding graveyards.

b. Constitutional provision limiting land consolidation in the form of


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legislation provision on maximum private land holding. c. Lack of international Airport in Nakuru. d. Recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts. e. Undisputable attachment of clan members of indigenous peoples on

their ancestral land leading to uncertainty of land ownership rights due to the unresolved indigenous peoples’ ancestral land court-claims and yet to be completed constitutional dictated land reforms.

Kajiado Sub-Region (Kajiado cum Nairobi City cum Konza Technology City)


a. Proximity to Nairobi City and the proposed Konza Technology City where opportunities that include the following are available: demand for affordable residential units, consumer goods, basic education facilities, international schools, tertiary institutions, universities training facilities e.t.c.

b. Proximity to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). c. Availability of vast, affordable and topographically well-formed land,

notable is the extensive well drained Kitengela-Isinya-Konza-Oloyangalani plains fit to host a resort city.

d. Adjacent to Kenya Railway railroad reserve and trans-section by Magadi Soda Railway line, hence availability of flat (acceptably inclined) railroad reserve for affordable development of elevated high-speed electric powered mass transport railroad system. Natural provision for relatively un-costly development of superhighway due to flat topography.

e. Availability of recognized international tourist attraction sites that include: Amboseli National Park, Maasai Cultural Heritage and proximity to Nairobi National Park, National Museums of Kenya, Tsavo West, Tsavo East and Coastal Shores.

f. Proximity to reliable permanent Athi River which will serve as source of water.

g. Availability of construction raw materials that include gypsum, limestone and other valuable minerals like soda/soda ash/salt.

h. Presence of a solid rechargeable Mt. Kilimanjaro aquifer.



b. Constitutional provision limiting land consolidation in the form of legislation provision on maximum private land holding.

c. Recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts. d. Undisputable attachment of clan members of indigenous peoples on

their ancestral land leading to uncertainty of land ownership rights due to the unresolved indigenous peoples’ ancestral land court-claims and


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yet to be completed constitutional dictated land reforms. Eldoret Sub-Region (Uasin Gishu, Nandi, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Trans Nzoia, West Pokot and Turkana County)


a. Geographically-centrally situated to East and Central Africa and the Horn of Africa, with quality road and railway infrastructural connections to East African Community.

b. Availability of vast, affordable and topographically well-formed land, notable is the extensive well drained Chepkoilel, Plateau and Wareng plains connected to International Airport, suitable to host Industrial City.

c. Reliable sources of clean water fit for industrial, agricultural and domestic use e.g. Kerio River and Chesumei-Yala River.

d. Availability of recognized international tourist attraction sites that include: Kerio Valley National Park, L. Turkana, R. Turkwel, Kerio River, the historical colonial resistance Nandi Hills, the internationally recognized home of athletes, and proximity to L. Victoria, Kakamega forest and Mt. Elgon. Notable also is the famous Sergoit Golf & Wildlife Resort – sitting on the Sergoit hill which will provide exciting topographical night-view of the proposed Industrial City and serve as site for the top-caliber residential villas for industrial shareholders and employees and also serves as site for playing golf.

e. Presence of a solid rechargeable Rift aquifer (underground water reservoir) that covers all the Counties including 2/3 of Turkana County. In addition of the sub-region covering all the agro-ecological zones, hence suitable for all types of agricultural developments and massive market of farm input e.g. fertilizers and seeds.

f. High population growth rate and density within the sub-region and the neighboring Western Province and Luo Nyanza indicating reliable sources of human resource and consumer market.



b. Constitutional provision limiting land consolidation in the form of legislation provision on maximum private land holding.

c. Recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts. d. Undisputable attachment of clan members of indigenous peoples on

their ancestral land leading to uncertainty of land ownership rights due to the unresolved indigenous peoples’ ancestral land court-claims and yet to be completed constitutional dictated land reforms.


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4.2. Investment Policy Instruments

1. The initial 10 year investment/development period target is investment of KES 1-2 (2-5) (5-10) trillion i.e. by the year 2024 (July 1st, 2023).

2. Upon establishment of the County governments in Rift Valley Community, they shall suspend all non-essential private capital intensive commercial development projects based on land until spatial plan for urban areas and land use plan for agricultural land is developed and approved by County Assembly. After approval of land use plans, each member County government is to reclaim misappropriated/misused agricultural land via re-zoning and enforcement of minimum land holding acreage applicable to agricultural land i.e. each member County government to enact and strictly enforce County land use plan legislations, to mitigate uncontrolled subdivision and for reclamation of subdivided and misused agricultural land.

3. County governments to put under tea bush or otherwise water catchments area conserving crops in all the trust land around water towers.

4. Properties and commercial services within the proposed Cities and Towns will not be subject to any property rates, service charges, entertainment taxes and any other tax that a member county government has powers to impose. The cities are self servicing in terms of provision of sanitation/water/public amenities and other public utilities and services through tax regimes administered by City/Town Councils (RVCCG) managed by RVIB. RVDA properties not within the said City Council management will be subject to hosting county government service provision and tax regimes. Any probable member county government unwilling to comply with these provisions will be inadmissible to RVDA. County governments hosting RVDA’s cities is legible for annual honoraria based on annual recommendations from RVIPI for approval by RVDA management committee after considering advice from RVE&SB. The honoraria will be serviced by RVDA secretariat from its Fund.

5. Contract farming, economic integration (both vertical and horizontal), industrial concentration and economies of scale will be promoted among RVIB managed companies to enhance marketing and lower cost of production.

6. Each major company group/subsidiary company under RVDA will develop its on office block and residential estate for all its multi-cadre employees, the residential estates tailor made/designed for different cadre of employees are to be developed solely using loans to be serviced using the accrued monthly rent or employees mortgage schemes. Smaller companies are to use RVHG office blocks/space and their employees to use RVHG residential estates.

7. Private investors can use their RVIB managed companies shareholding certificates to secure loan from RVDB.

8. National government will be requested through bills to be introduced in parliament to establish “Commission on Conservation of Water Towers” which is to be allocated 0.5% of annual national government budget. Its mandate will be to restore and conserve the 5 national water towers.


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9. National government will be requested through bills to be introduced in parliament to introduce unit costing in University students’ government partial sponsorship program, once enacted it will enable National government partially sponsored university studentship candidates to joint any Kenyan University of their choice using the partial sponsorship vouchers. The above provision is to be tailored to apply across the academic levels i.e. from primary schools to university level.

10. National government will be requested through bills to be introduced in parliament to subsidize for referral healthcare offered to her citizen by all the referral hospitals (to a given maximum level for a given health condition) i.e. for services offered by both public and private hospitals, these request can be implemented through government sponsored/facilitated health insurance cover for all citizens.

11. The national government will be requested through a bill in parliament to allow duty free importation of essential industrial raw materials not adequately available in Kenya e.g. iron ore.

12. The national government will be requested through a bill to be introduced in parliament to provide for 51% shareholding by citizens or their government(s) of foreign companies exploiting Kenyan natural resources that includes mineral, land and water resources.

13. The national government will be requested through bills to be introduced in parliament to priorities and develop/up-grade a number of transport infrastructure that includes: a. Up-grade and electrification of Kenya-Uganda railway and extension to

Southern Sudan via Lodwar Town. b. Development of 8 to 12 lane superhighway linking Nairobi city-Konza

Technology City and from Athi River through Kajiado CBD to Konza Technology City.

c. Extension of oil pipeline to Southern Sudan via Kitale-Lodwar route. d. Extension of Kisumu-Kakamega-Bungoma highway to Southern Sudan via

Kitale-Lodwar route. e. Construction of Greater Southern By-pass connecting Naivasha-Suswa-

Ngong-Kitengela-Lukenya.

4.3. Mutual Fund Investment Projects Overview

Mobilized mutual funds will be invested in 2 categories of investments; rural development companies; and specialized company groups & subsidiary companies based in county resources centres, constituency resources centres, ward resources centres, modern towns, specialized cities and Nairobi city markets (Table 2).


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Table 2: The Investment/Development Concept Map

Main Company Main Company

RIFT VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RVDA)

RVDA Management Committee (Secretariat) = Member County Government Governors + RVDA Executive Secretary (CEO). Fund: 1% A.N. P.C.

Public – Private Partnership Companies: member County Governments’ Subsidy Fund: member County Residents’ Investment: Strategic Investors’ Investment. 30:51:19

shareholdings (e.g. 420:714:266 KES Billion)

Samaritans’ Initiative for Change Network (SICNET) Fund: 2. 5% of A.N.P.C

Rift Valley Products & Services Exhibition Board (RVP&SEB) Fund: 1% A.N. P.C.

Rift Valley Ethics & Standards Bureau (RVE&SB) Fund: 1% of A. N.P. C.

Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) Init. Cap.: KES 420 B

Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB). Init. Cap.: KES 56 Bn

Mutual Fund Management Division

Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU)

Rift Valley Stock Exchange (RVSE)

Research & Development (R&D) Division Fund: 2. 5% of A.N.P.C.

Main Companies KES Bn Main Companies KES Bn Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) Group 420.14 Rift Valley Clay Works (RVCW) Group 0.2 Rift Valley Dairies (RVD) Group 7.5 Rift Valley Paper Mills (RVPM) Group 2 Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB) 56 Rift Valley Machineries (RVM) Group 7 Rift Valley Electrical & Electronics (RVEE) Group 12 Rift Valley Mining (RVM) Group 14 Rift Valley Ranching (RVC) Groups 6.5 Rift Valley Beverages (RVB) Group 3 Rift Valley Horticultural Development (RVHD) Group 70 Rift Valley Fisheries (RVF) Group 0.25 Nakuru City Horticultural Development (NCHD) Group 96 Rift Valley Agro-Chemicals Group 36 Rift Valley Irrigation Development (RVID) Group 70 Rift Valley Canning Group 0.7 Rift Valley Sugar Processors Group 2 Rift Valley Breweries (RVB) Group 3 Rift Valley Tea Blenders Group 1 Rift Valley Electric Power (RVEP) Group98 Rift Valley Coffee Blenders Group 0.1 Rift Valley Hotels (RVH) Group 24 Rift Valley Pyrethrum Processors Group 0.1 Rift Valley Cotton Mill Group 0.1 Rift Valley Meat Processors (RVMP) Group 3 Rift Valley Unga Mills Group 6 Rift Valley Seeds Company (RVSC) Group 0.5 Valmart Group 37 Rift Valley Nut Processors (RVNP) Group 0.06 Rift Valley Sisal Mill Group 0.1 Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT) Group 64 Rift Valley Publishers (RVP) Group 0.1 Rift Valley Medical University (RVMU) Group 35 Rift Valley Metal Mill (RVSM) Group 6 Rift Valley Housing Development (RVHD) Group 98 Rift Valley Transport (RVT) Group 95 Rift Valley Leather Works (RVLW) Group 1 Rift Valley Honey Refinery Group 0.25 Rift Valley Media Services (RVMS) Group 3 Rift Valley Dairy Processors Group 2 Rift Valley Water & Sanitation (RVWS) Group 42 Total Initial Capital 1,400 Rift Valley Petro-Chemicals (RVPC) Group 36 Rift Valley Construction Company (RVCC) Group 13.5 Rift Valley Information Technology (RVIT) Group 4 Rift Valley Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers (RVPM) Group 14 Rift Valley Industrial Chemicals (RVIC) Group 1 Rift Valley Consumer Goods Industries (RVCGI) Group 20 Rift Valley Clothings & Textiles (RVCT) Group 2 Rift Valley Cooking Oil Refinery (RVCOR) Group 2 Rift Valley Bio-Instrumentations (RVBI) Group 0.7 Rift Valley Business Services (RVBS) Group 0.135 Rift Valley Sports Services (RVSS) Group 0.1 Rift Valley City Council (RVCC) Group 0.78 Rift Valley Security Service (RVSS) Group 0.8

Ivestment Site Nakuru Commercial City; Eldoret Industrial City; Kajiado Resort City; Kaplong Town; Nanyuki Town; Samburu Town; Kitale Town; Lodwar Town; [County] Resource Centres; [Constituent] Resource Centres; [Ward] Resource Centre; and Rural Areas

Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI) Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI)

Meaning of Abreviations 2. 5% of A.N.P.C.: 2. 5% of each company’s annual net profit commission. Init. CaP.: Initial capital allocation per company when 15% of revenue is allocated to County governments. KES Bn: Kenya Shillings Billion

Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) Fund: Land rates

Fully Public Institutions: Operated using the Public – Private Partnership Companies’ annual commission charges to their Fund.


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4.4. Financial Capital Allocation

Mobilized financial resources (capital) are to be equitably allocated to proposed company groups and their subsidiaries as indicated in the table below (Table 2)

Table 3: Financial Capital Resources Allocation to Proposed Companies

Economic Sector Company Groups & Subsidiary Companies

Initial Capital Allocations (KES Billion)

Employment Opportunities

Created (Minimum)

Strategic Investor State Corporation/Private Company Country of Registration

When 15 % of National Revenue allocated to County Governments

When 45% of National Revenue allocated to County Governments

Finance & Investment Management

Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) Group

China Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) 420 1260 2,000

Valley Assurace Company Ltd 0.05 0.15 50

Valley Medical Insurance Ltd 0.04 0.12 40

Valley Pension Scheme Ltd 0.05 0.15 50

Rift Valley Investment Bank (RVIB) 56 168 1,200 Switzerland

Sub-Total Capital 476.14 1428.42 3,340

Agricultural Development

Rift Valley Horticultural Development (RVHD)Group

The Netherlands

Bomet Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Kericho Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Nandi Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Uasin Gishu Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Trans-Nzoia Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Nakuru Horticuture Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Elgeyo-Marakwet Horticuture Development Ltd 5 15 66,000

Narok Horticuture Development Ltd 4 12 53,000

Baringo Horticulture Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Nakuru City Horticultural Development (NCHD) Group

The Netherlands

Nakuru City Roses Ltd 50 150 600,000

Nakuru City Orchards Ltd 30 90 400,000

Nakuru City Herbs & Vegetables Ltd 16 48 200,000

Rift Valley Irrigation Development (RVID) Group

Israel

Turkana Irrigation Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

West-Pokot Irrigation Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Keiyo-Marakwet Irrigation Development Ltd 5 15 66,000

Baringo Irrigation Development Ltd 9 27 120,000

Laikipia Irrigation Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Samburu Irrigation Development Ltd 10 30 130,000

Narok Irrigation Development Ltd 6 18 80,000

Kajiado Irrigation Development Ltd 10 30 130,000


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Rift Valley Dairy Development (RVDD) Group

Denmark

Bomet Dairy Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Kericho Dairy Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Nandi Dairy Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Uasin Dairy Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Trans-Nzoia Development Dairy Ltd 1 3 13,000

Nakuru Dairy Development Ltd 1 3 13,000

Elgeyo-Marakwet Development Dairy Ltd 1 3 13,000

Narok Dairy Development Ltd 0.5 1.5 6,000

Rift Valley Ranching (RVC) Group

Denmark

Turkana Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

West-Pokot Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

Baringo Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

Laikipia Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

Samburu Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

Narok Ranching Ltd 0.5 1.5 6,500

Kajiado Ranching Ltd 1 3 13,000

Rift Valley Fisheries (RVF) Group

Denmark

L. Naivasha Fisheries Ltd 0.01 0.03 130

L. Baringo Fisheries Ltd 0.01 0.03 130

L. Turkana Fisheries Ltd 0.01 0.03 130

[River/Dam] Fisheries Ltd 0.02 0.06 260

Valley Fishmeal Ltd 0.1 0.3 1,300

Rift Valley Agro-Chemicals (RVAC) Group

Germany Valley Fertilizer Factory Ltd 21 63 500

Valley Crop-Healthcare Products Ltd 3.5 10.5 200

Valley Animal-Healthcare Products Ltd 2 6 100

Rift Valley Canning (RVC) Group 0.7 2.1 140 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Honey Refinery (RVHR)Group 0.25 0.75 50 Denmark

Rift Valley Sugar Processors (RVSP) Group 2 6 400 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Tea Blenders (RVTB) Group 1 3 200 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Coffee Blenders (RVCB) Group 0.1 0.3 20 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Pyrethrum Processors (RVPP) Group 0.1 0.3 20 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Cotton Mill (RVCM) Group 0.1 0.3 20 Israel

Rift Valley Sisal Mill (RVSM) Group 0.1 0.3 20 Israel

Rift Valley Unga Mill (RVUM) Group

Israel Rift Valley Unga Mill Ltd 3 9 600

Valley Cereals Warehousing Ltd 4.2 12.6 840

Valley Animal Feeds Ltd 1 3 200

Rift Valley Meat Processors Group Denmark Rift Valley Meat Processors Ltd 2.8 8.4 500


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Valley Leather Tanning Ltd 0.2 0.6 40

Rift Valley Dairy Processors Group 2 6 500

Rift Valley Seeds Company (RVSC) Group 1 3 200 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Nut Processors (RVNP) Group 0.06 0.18 20 Israel

Sub-Total Capital 295.26 885.78 3,220,520

Education

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT)Group

UK

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Eldoret Campus 10 30 2,000

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Kajiado Campus 10 30 2,000

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Nakuru Campus 10 30 2,000

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Nanyuki Campus 1 3 200

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Samburu Campus 1 3 200

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Kaplong Campus 1 3 200

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Kitale Campus 1 3 200

Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Lodwar Campus 1 3 200

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Eldoret Campus 4 12 800

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Kajiado Campus 4 12 800

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Nakuru Campus 4 12 800

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Nanyuki Campus 0.25 0.75 50

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Samburu Campus 0.25 0.75 50

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Kaplong Campus 0.25 0.75 50

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Kitale Campus 0.25 0.75 50

Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), Lodwar Campus 0.25 0.75 50

Valley Teachers College, [County name] 0.4 1.20 100

Valley Youth Polytechnic, [Constituency name] 0.05 0.15 780 Valley Boys' High School, [City/Town site name] 1 3 2,200

Valley Girls' High School, [City Town/Town site name] 1 3 2,200

Valley International School, [City/Town name] 1 3 2,200

Valley School of Special Education, Nakuru 0.05 0.15 150

Valley Academy, [City/Town site name] 1.6 4.8 2,200

Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [City/Town site name] 0.075 0.225 1,200

[County name] Educational Services Ltd 10.5 31.5 4,100


Health & Health Education

Rift Valley Medical University (RVMU) Group

USA

Rift Valley Medical University (RVMU), [Eldoret/Kajiado/Nakuru] Campus 3 9 1,000

Rift Valley University Hospital (RVUH), Eldoret 10 30 2,000

Rift Valley University Hospital (RVUH), Kajiado 10 30 2,000

Rift Valley University Hospital (RVUH), Nakuru 10 30 2,000

Valley Hospices Ltd, Eldoret 0.02 0.06 20

Valley Hospices Ltd, Nakuru 0.02 0.06 20

Valley Hospices Ltd, Kajiado 0.02 0.06 20

Valley Seniors Home Ltd, Eldoret 0.005 0.015 10

Valley Seniors Home Ltd, Nakuru 0.005 0.015 10


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Valley Seniors Home Ltd, Kajiado 0.005 0.015 10

Valley Teaching Hospital, [City site name] 1 3 200

Valley Outpatient Clinic, [City/Town site name] 0.4 1.2 200

Valley Outpatient Lab, [City/Town site name] 0.4 1.2 200

Valley Teaching & Referral Hospital, [Town name] 5 15 1,000

Valley Advanced Medical College Ltd, [Town name] 0.5 1.5 100

Valley Medical College Ltd, [City site name/County name] 1.5 4.5 300

[County name] Healthcare Services Ltd 4.5 13.5 900


Housing

Rift Valley Housing Development (RVHD) Group

China

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Kajiado 78 234 1,000

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Eldoret 10 30 300

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Nakuru 10 30 400

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Nanyuki 0.5 1.5 20

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Samburu 0.5 1.5 20

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Kitale 0.5 1.5 20

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Lodwar 0.5 1.5 20

Valley Housing Development Ltd, Kaplong 0.5 1.5 20

[County name] Housing Development Ltd 3.5 10.5 200

Sub-Total Capital 104 312 2,000

Water & Sanitation

Rift Valley Water & Sanitation (RVWS) Group

China

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Kajiado 15 45 600

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Eldoret 10 30 200

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Nakuru 10 30 200

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Nanyuki 0.4 1.2 20

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Samburu 0.4 1.2 20

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Kitale 0.4 1.2 20

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Lodwar 0.4 1.2 20

Valley Water & Sanitation Ltd, Kaplong 0.4 1.2 20

[County name] Water & Sanitation Ltd 5 15 1,000


Energy

Rift Valley Electric Power (RVEP) Group

France

Valley Geothermal Power Ltd 95 285 1,200

Valley Hydropower Ltd 3 9 600

Valley Batteries Ltd 1 3 200

Valley Power Supply Ltd 1 3 200

Valley Rural Electrification (County name) Ltd, 1 3 200

Rift Valley Petro-Chemicals (RVPC) Group Uganda or South Sudan Valley Petro-Chem Products Ltd 1 3 200

Valley Oil Ltd 7 21 7,000


Transport Rift Valley Transport (RVT) Group Japan


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Valley Railways Service Ltd 70 210 1,000

Valley Airlines Ltd 20 60 500

Valley Airports Co. Ltd 5 15 500

Valley Coach Ltd 1 3 2,000

Valley Automobile Assembly Ltd 3 9 600

Valley Transporters Ltd 2 6 600

Valley Auto-Garage Ltd 0.4 1.2 300

Valley Freight Forwarding Ltd 0.05 0.15 200

Valley Courier Services Ltd 0.05 0.15 200


Tourism & Hospitality

Rift Valley Hotels (RVH) Group

Italy

Kajiado International Conference Centre Ltd 1.5 4.5 200

Nakuru International Conference Centre Ltd 1.5 4.5 200

Eldoret International Conference Centre Ltd 1.5 4.5 200

Kajiado Maasai Cultural Resort Ltd 2 6 400

Masai Mara Tourist Resort Ltd 2 6 400

Amboseli Wildlife Resort Ltd 1 3 200

L. Nakuru Tourist Resort Ltd 1.5 4.5 300

L. Naivasha Tourist Resort Ltd 1 3 200

L. Elmentaita Wildlife Resort Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Laikipia Wildlife Resort Ltd 0.25 0.75 50

L. Baringo Tourist Resort Ltd 0.25 0.75 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Cultural Resort 2 6 400

Kerio Valley Tourist Resort Ltd 2 6 400

Nanyuki Tourist Resort Ltd 1 3 200

Samburu Tourist Resort Ltd 2 6 400

Maralal Tourist Resort Ltd 0.25 0.75 50

L. Turkana Tourist Resort Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Turkwel Tourist Resort Ltd 0.25 0.75 50

Valley Safaris Ltd 0.25 0.75 50

Valley Curio Services Ltd 0.05 0.15 10

Valley Hotel Ltd, [City/Town site name] 5 15 1,000

Valley City/Town Club Ltd, [City/Town site name] 0.5 1.5 100

Valley Restaurant Ltd, [City/Town based restaurants] 2.4 7.2 200

[County name] Hotels & Restaurants Ltd 1.5 4.5 300


Wholesale & Retail

Valmart Group

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Valmart Household Goods Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Clothing & Footwear Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Electronics & Electricals Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Furniture & House-ware Ltd 1 3 200

Valmart Agro-vet Ltd 1 3 200


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Valmart Grocery Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Pharmacy Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Hardware Ltd 3 9 600

Valmart Glassware Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Valmart Bookshop Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Virtual Mall Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Butchery Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Automotives Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Machinery Ltd 2 6 400

Valmart Lab Equipment & Supplies Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Valmart Beauty Saloon Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Valmart Toys & Sporting Goods Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Valmart Personal Products Ltd 1 3 200

Valmart Open-Air Markets Ltd 1 3 20200

[County name] Wholesale-Retail Services Ltd 8 24 1,600


Building & Construction

Rift Valley Construction Company (RVCC) Group

China Rift Valley Construction Company Ltd 7 21 1,400

[County] Construction Company Ltd 7 21 1,400


Information & Communications Tochnology

Rift Valley Information Technology (RVIT) Group

India

Valley Info-Structure Ltd 1 3 200

Valley Telecoms Ltd 3 9 600

Valley Internet & Computer Services Ltd, [City/Town name] 0.5 1.5 1,000

Valley Programming Services Ltd 0.05 0.15 10

Valley Data Services Ltd 0.2 0.6 40

[County] Internet & Computer Services Ltd 0.35 1.05 1,000

Rift Valley Media Services (RVMS) Group

India Valley Newspapers Ltd 1.5 4.5 300

Valley Radio Services Ltd 0.2 0.6 50

Valley TV Services Ltd 0.3 0.9 60


Minerals & Natural Products Mills

Rift Valley Mining (RVM) Group

India

Valley Cement Ltd 12 36 2,400

Valley Carbon dioxide Ltd 0.1 0.3 20

Valley Soda-ash Ltd 0.5 1.5 100

Valley Ruby Mines Ltd 0.1 0.3 20

Valley Oxygen Ltd 0.1 0.3 20

Valley Gold Mines Ltd 0.1 0.3 20

Rift Valley Metal Mill (RVSM) Group India Valley Steel Mills Ltd 5.5 16.5 1,100

Valley Aluminum & Alloy Works Ltd 0.5 1.5 100


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Rift Valley Clay Works (RVCW) Group

Italy Valley Bricks & Tiles Ltd 0.05 0.15 50

Valley House-ware Ltd 0.05 0.15 50

Valley Concrete Ltd 0.04 0.12 40

Rift Valley Paper Mills (RVPM) Group

Italy

Valley Paper Mills Ltd 1 3 200

Valley Plywood Ltd 0.8 2.4 200

Valley Furniture Manufacturers Ltd 0.1 0.3 500

Valley Wood Craft Ltd 0.05 0.15 50

Valley Paper Brands Ltd 0.05 0.15 50


Manufacturing & Productions

Rift Valley Electrical & Electronics (RVE&E) Group

Japan

Valley Electrical & Electronic Components Ltd 5 15 1,000

Valley Computer Manufacturers Ltd 2 6 400

Valley Electrical Appliances Ltd 2 6 400

Valley Electronic Gadgets Ltd 2 6 400

Valley Cables Ltd 1 3 200

Rift Valley Machineries (RVM) Group

Russia Valley Heavy Machinery Ltd 3 9 600

Valley Industrial Equipments Ltd 2 6 400

Valley Automobile Components Ltd 2 6 400

Rift Valley Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers (RVPM) Group 14 42 2,800 UK

Rift Valley Industrial Chemicals (RVIC) Group 1 3 200 Germany

Rift Valley Consumer Goods Industries (RVCGI) Group 2 6 400 UK

Rift Valley Beverages (RVB) Group 3 9 600 The Netherlands

Rift Valley Clothing & Textiles (RVCT) Group 2 6 400 Italy

Rift Valley Leather Works (RVLW) Group 1 3 200 Italy

Rift Valley Breweries (RVB) Group Germany Valley Breweries Ltd, Eldoret 1.5 4.5 300

Valley Breweries Ltd, Kajiado 1.5 4.5 300

Rift Valley Cooking Oil Refinery (RVCOR) Group 2 6 400 Malaysia

Rift Valley Bio-Instrumentations (RVBI) Group 0.7 2.1 100 Japan

Rift Valley Publishers (RVP) Group 0.1 0.3 20 UK


Business Services

Rift Valley Business Services (RVBS) Group

Valley Human Resources Selection Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

UK

Valley Accounting & Auditing Ltd 0.05 0.15 200

Valley Procurement Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

Valley Solid Waste Collection Services Ltd 1 3 5,000

Valley Cleaning & Hygiene Ltd 0.02 0.06 5,000

Valley Debt Collection Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

Valley Gardening & Beautification Ltd 0.01 0.03 10,000


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Valley Engineering Services Ltd 0.1 0.3 200

Valley Tax Experts Services Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

Valley Public Relations Ltd 0.01 0.03 200

Valley Architectural Services Ltd 0.01 0.03 200

Valley Actuarial Services Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

Valley Auctions Ltd 0.005 0.015 200

Valley Green Technologies Ltd 0.01 0.03 200

Valley Advertising & Marketing Ltd 0.21 0.63 200

Valley Call Services Ltd 0.01 0.03 1,000

Others 0.02 0.06 200


Talents Management (Infrustructural development and equiping to be done using SICNET Fund, and all the trainees to be fully sponsored by Talents Fund - SICNET Fund)

Rift Valley Talents Management (RVTM) Group 0.1 0.3 100

USA

Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Mentorship Centre, Nandi Hills 0 0 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Girls' High School, Nandi Hills 0 0 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Boys' High School, Nandi Hills 0 0 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Academy, Nandi Hills 0 0 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Sports Complex 0 0 50

Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Library 0 0 50

[City/Town/County R.C. site name] Sports Complex 0 0 1,000

[City/Town/Resource Centre site name] Sports Ground 0 0 1,000

[City/Town/Resource Centre site name] Social Hall 0 0 500

Iten Sports-Girls' High School, Iten 0 0 50

Iten Sports-Boys' High School, Iten 0 0 50

Iten Sports Academy, Iten 0 0 50

Iten Athletics Camp 0 0 10

Timboroa Athletics Camp 0 0 10


City Council

Rift Valley Metropolitan Council (RVMC) Group

Swiden

Kajiado City Council (KCC) 0.1 0.3 2,000

Nakuru City Council (NCC) 0.1 0.3 2,000

Eldoret City Council (ECC) 0.1 0.3 2,000

Nanyuki Town Council (NTC) 0.02 0.06 200

Samburu Town Council (STC) 0.02 0.06 200

Kaplong Town Council (KTC) 0.02 0.06 200

Kitale Town Council (KTC) 0.02 0.06 200

Lodwar Town Council (LTC) 0.02 0.06 200

[County name) Resource Centres Council 0.3 0.9 1,000

Sub-Total 0.7 2.1 8,000

Security

Rift Valley Security Service (RVSS) Group

Russia Valley Security Services Ltd 0.35 1.05 25,000

Valley CCTV Management Systems Ltd 0.1 0.3 100

Valley Fire-brigade Systems Ltd 1.18 3.54 100


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Valley Securities Escort Ltd 0.05 0.15 200

Valley Security Services (County) Ltd 0.2 0.6 1,000

Sub-Total 1.88 5.64 6,400

All Sectors Total Initial Capital 1,400 4,200 3,388,360

1. The final proposed allocation estimates shall be arrived at depending on the national

revenue percentage allocated to County Governments, since some company groups and their subsidiaries do not need more than as indicated for when County governments are allocated 15% of total national revenue, thus, the companies allocation ratio shall not be maintained as indicated in the table.

2. Despite all the [County] subsidiary companies under one company group are allocated similar initial capital in this economic strategic plan, the actual allocation shall reflect the proportional contributions (shareholdings) of member County governments in the Rift Valley Development Fund.

4.5. Rural Development Companies

1. Rural areas based companies will be incorporated to specialize in utilization of rural areas’ natural & human resources to spearhead generation of wealth in the localities, to create employment & investment opportunities, for production of raw materials needed by industries based in the proposed cities and towns and to service County government constitutional functions through business process outsourcing and application service outsourcing.

2. It will employ more less the same methods as Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), Sugar Companies (e.g. Mumias Sugar), Kenya Seed Company, Lake Basin Development Authority, Kerio Valley Development Authority, Ewaso Ngiro South River Basin Development Authority, Horticultural Crops Development Authority, and such like parastatals. However, the companies herein will be profit-oriented and will work in close association with local land owners & residents, the land use planning R&D institute - RVIPI, RVDB, agro-processing factories and other market segments through contract farm management, contract-farming and economic integration contract-agreements & policies.

3. Host County government will facilitate rural development companies through among others provision and maintenance of quality road infrastructure in rural areas.

4. The categories of areas of specialization of the companies will include the following- a. Agricultural Development Companies; b. Rural Development Agro-Processing Companies c. Rural Development Natural Resource Utilizing Companies

4.5.1. Agricultural Development Companies

1. This category of rural development companies is to be illustrated to serve as an example of how these companies will operate to achieve its mandates.


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2. Each member County government will legislate for land use plans for each agro-ecological zones within its territory according to recommendations by RVIPI in consultation with agricultural development subsidiary company(ies) which is to implement the legislation(s), the legislation(s) will also provide for provisions for restricted growing of only crops that conserve water catchments area e.g. tea bush within 10km distance from water towers and within a reasonable distance from other water catchments area.

3. Land ownership under land use contracts with agricultural development subsidiary company shall not be transferred to any other person other than RVILB to avoid disruption of land developments as RVILB will automatically lease to the agricultural development company for its continued use.

4. Land owners to indicate to the agricultural development company(ies) graveyard(s) to enable the company(ies) to accord respect, appropriately mark, conserve and maintain such sacred sites.

5. The functions of agricultural development subsidiary companies in general terms are the following- a. Training, demonstrating and facilitating farmers to adopt new agricultural

technologies and other innovative farming techniques; b. funding and management of farm productions through land use contracts with

land owners; c. establish irrigation infrastructures & and offer irrigated farm management

services; d. provision of crops/animals (e.g. seeds of variety of crops, beef cattle, dairy

cows, Galla goat breeds for replacement of unproductive small east African goat breeds, camel, poultry, bees e.t.c.), feeds/input and their health services;

e. facilitate RVIPI on research and development related to land use planning and policy developments;

f. provide gardening & flower bed beautification services in Resources Centres; g. facilitate tourism companies on agro-tourism related responsibilities; h. facilitate agro-forestry and other environmental conservation and sustainable

utilization functions e.g. by providing relevant training and appropriate tree(s) seedlings at subsidized prices for local resident to plan in their farms;

i. farm produce marketing and signing of contract-agreements with farm produce markets to enhance contract farming and economic integrations;

j. facilitate overseas market penetration through interring into contract farming foreign distributor with large distribution networks in strategic markets such as the USA, EU or China;

k. Collection and transport of farm produce to processing factories and other markets;

l. Subsidiaries will be established by County Ranching companies to enable each clan community land to be operated on by an independent subsidiary; such subsidiaries established on land collectively owned by clan will be owned by the concerned clan for up to 51%. Ranching companies are to replace nomadic pastoralist practices hence relief most of the community member and more so children to pursue employment opportunities and education advancement.


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m. Agricultural development subsidiary companies will enter long term land use contracts only with land owners whose land is not under any court-claims/dispute or land ownership investigation by any commission.

n. To ensure replacement of cereal crop production in Rift Valley highlands with lucrative export-oriented horticultural crops, and introduction and production of cereals through water-efficient irrigation technologies in Rift Valley’s Arid and semi-Arid zones.

o. To ensure replacement of beef and duel proposes cattle production in Rift Valley highlands with lucrative export-oriented pure-bred dairy cattle, silkworm & litter chicken production, and promotion of production of beef, lamp, mutton and free range chicken through ranching technologies in Rift Valley’s Arid and semi-Arid zones

p. The ultimate goal of all the agricultural development companies is to consolidate all the agricultural land in Rift Valley Community into specialized highly technically-mechanized large scale plantations run by highly skilled personnel, while land owner are shareholders in the different plantations i.e. as is the case with multi-national tea plantations in Kericho and in general, resemble the case in U.S.A. though there government owns and leases the agricultural land to farmers (for most of USA).

4.5.1.1. Specific Companies under Agricultural Development Companies

4.5.1.1a. Rift Valley Irrigation Development (RVID) Group

1. To employ irrigation agro-technologies in Rift Valley low altitude zones to produce food and cash crops that include: Cereals like maize, wheat, barley, sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet and other crops like cassava, sweet potatoes, fruits adapted to low altitude zones, onions, sugarcanes, coffee, sisal, cotton, oilseed, nuts e.g. ground nuts, bixa annatto, tobacco, herbs and other crops adapted to low altitude zones.

2. It will establish silos, warehouses and cold rooms for storage of farm produce during harvest time for sell during periods of high demand.

3. The subsidiary companies under this group are to promote environmental conservation via agro-forestation technologies funded by Environmental conservation Fund (SICNET Fund), the subsidiaries includes:- a. Turkana Irrigation Dev. Ltd b. West-Pokot Irrigation Dev. Ltd c. Samburu Irrigation Dev. ltd d. Baringo Irrigation Dev. ltd e. Elgeyo-Marakwet Irrigation Dev. Ltd f. Laikipia Irrigation Dev. ltd g. Narok Irrigation Dev. Ltd h. Kajiado Irrigation Development ltd

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1. To employ agro-technologies in Rift Valley high altitude zones to produce food and cash crops that include: Fruits, Cut flowers, vegetables, sugarcanes, tea bushes, coffee, pyrethrum, onions, spices, potatoes, sweet corns & other fresh produce corns, nuts e.g. macadamia, green beans, snow peas, mush rooms, herbs, and other horticultural crops.

2. It will establish silos, warehouses and cold rooms for storage of farm produce during harvest time for awaiting bulk transportation to market.

3. The subsidiary companies under this group are to promote environmental conservation via agro-forestation technologies, the subsidiaries includes:- a. Elgeyo-Marakwet Horticultural Dev. Ltd b. Trans-Nzoia Horticultural Dev. Ltd c. Uasin Gishu Horticultural Dev. Ltd d. Nandi Horticultural Dev. Ltd e. Kericho Horticultural Dev. Ltd f. Bomet Horticultural Dev. Ltd g. Nakuru Horticultural Dev. Ltd h. Narok Horticultural Dev. Ltd i. Mt. Elgon Horticultural Dev. Ltd

Table 4: Water sources for crop agricultural development subsidiary companies

Host County

Agricultural Development Subsidiary

Source of Water Abstraction

Turkana Turkana Irrigation Dev. Ltd Mt. Elgon aquifer, Kerio River, L. Turkana drainage, rainfall runoff conservation.

West-Pokot West-Pokot Irrigation Dev. ltd Mt. Elgon aquifer, Kerio and Suam River, rainfall runoff conservation.

Samburu Samburu Irrigation Dev. ltd

Merti aquifer, River Ewaso ng’iro north. SICNET Fund will be used to pay honoraria to residents of Isiolo County to enable shared utilization of the trans-boundary Merti aquifer via setting up of irrigation schemes in their County for their benefit, rainfall runoff conservation.

Baringo Baringo Irrigation Dev. ltd

Mt. Elgon aquifer, Menengai aquifer-L. Bogoria-L. Baringo aquifer system (Rift aquifer) and Mau Complex aquifer-Chemosusu forest (Rift aquifer), and Baringo basin drainage system, rainfall runoff conservation.

Elgeyo-Marakwet

Elgeyo-Marakwet Irrigation Dev. Ltd Elgeyo-Marakwet Horticultural Dev. Ltd

Mt. Elgon aquifer, Rift Aquifers and Kerio River, rainfall runoff conservation.

Trans Nzoia Trans-Nzoia Horticultural Dev. Mt. Elgon aquifer, Nzoia and Suam rivers,


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Ltd rainfall runoff conservation. Uasin Gishu Uasin Gishu Horticultural Dev.

Ltd Rift aquifers, Nzoia river and local rivers, rainfall runoff conservation.

Nandi Nandi Horticultural Dev. Ltd Nandi aquifer (Rift aquifer), river Yala (Nandi south forest dam), rainfall runoff conservation.

Kericho Kericho Horticultural Dev. Ltd

Mau Complex aquifer (Rift aquifer), river Nyando, rainfall runoff conservation.

Bomet Bomet Horticultural Dev. Ltd Mau Complex aquifer (Rift aquifer), river Sondu, rainfall runoff conservation.

Nakuru Nakuru Horticultural Dev. Ltd

L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer (Rift aquifer), Mau Complex aquifer (Rift aquifer), rainfall runoff conservation.

Laikipia Laikipia Irrigation Dev. ltd

Mt. Kenya and Aberdere ranges water towers and draining from Mt. Kenya and Aberdere ranges, rainfall runoff conservation.

Narok Narok Irrigation Dev. Ltd Narok Horticultural Dev. Ltd

L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer (Rift aquifer), Mau Complex aquifer (Rift aquifer), river Mara and river Kuja, rainfall runoff conservation.

Kajiado Kajiado Irrigation Development ltd

L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer (Rift aquifer), Mt Kilimanjaro aquifer and river Ewaso ng’iro south, rainfall runoff conservation.

Mt. Elgon constituency

Mt. Elgon Horticultural Dev. Ltd

Mt. Elgon aquifer, and Nzoia and Suam rivers, rainfall runoff conservation.

4.5.1.1b1. Rift Valley Dairy Development (RVDD) Group

1. To employ animal production technologies in Rift Valley high altitude zone to produce milk products and other animal products via keeping of animals that include: Dairy cows, dairy goats, merino sheep, pigs, silkworm and other animals adapted to high altitude zones.

2. This will supply host County farmers with dairy cows, feeds and other dairy production inputs and management services, and collect and market dairy produce upon which it will be able to recover its credited money and agreed standing charges & profit percentage, and such like companies in other agro-ecologically related zones.

3. The subsidiary companies under this group includes:- a. Baringo Dairy Dev. ltd b. Elgeyo-Marakwet Dairy Dev. ltd c. Trans-Nzoia Dairy Dev. ltd d. Uasin Gishu Dairy Dev. ltd e. Nandi Dairy Dev. ltd


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f. Kericho Dairy Dev. ltd g. Bomet Dairy Dev. ltd h. Nakuru Dairy Dev. ltd i. Laikipia Dairy Dev. ltd j. Narok Dairy Dev. ltd k. Mt. Elgon Dairy Dev. ltd

4.5.1.1b2. Rift Valley Ranching Group

1. To employ animal production technologies in Rift Valley low altitude zones to produce milk products and other animal products via keeping of animals that include: Beef cattle, meat goat, meat sheep, camel, ostrich, horses, donkeys, bees, free range chicken, and other animals adapted to low altitude zones edible bird’s nest premises distributed to the hard core poor

2. This will undertake replacement of the relatively low productive Small East Africa goat breed with the more productive Galla goat breed kept in Northern Kenya. Facilitate mass propagation and planting all over the hills (as the flat land will be under crop irrigation) of acceptable drought tolerant goat feed trees (foliage/browse) of desirable nutritional & mineral content. These will provide reliable source of feeds for the goats and mitigate effects of climate change. And such like companies in other arid and semi-arid regions.

3. This Company will operate a woodwork workshop in Eldama Ravine that will use woody logs harvested from Chemosusu forest to manufacture modern beehives. Then supply the beehives to all farmers in arid and semi-arid parts of Baringo County, train the farmers on bee keeping and provide other management services. Eventually collect honey, process, package and market, after marketing it will recover its credited money, agree upon standing charges and profit percentage.

4. The subsidiary companies under this group includes:- a. Baringo Ranching Ltd b. Turkana Ranching Ltd c. Samburu Ranching Ltd d. Elgeyo-Marakwet Ranching Ltd e. Laikipia Ranching Ltd f. Narok Ranching Ltd g. Kajiado Ranching Ltd

4.5.1.2. Rift Valley Fisheries Development (RVFD) Group

1. Each member county to have such company. 2. The overall functions of companies under this category are:-

a. To provide natural water bodies ecosystem conservation services and use for fish keeping via integrated cage aquaculture systems;

b. to establish artificial fish ponds at suitable agro-ecological zone including artificial water dams in conjunction with dam owners;

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d. to breed fish, operate hatcheries and produce fingerlings for restocking artificial and natural water bodies;

e. to establish and operate feed meal factories; f. to harvest fish, process, preserve in refrigerated storage rooms and market;

4.5.1.3. Agricultural Development Implementations Strategy

1. Implementation of Nandi dairy development by the proposed Nandi Development Ltd is illustrated to serve as an example of the implementation of all the agricultural development subsidiary companies with appropriate modifications.

2. Upon incorporation and financing as indicated in the chapter on implementation schedule, Nandi Development Ltd in conjunction with Nandi Horticultural Development Ltd and RVIPI will develop land use plan and legislation bills to enforce the plan (to be enacted and enforced by Nandi County government).

3. Once the legislations are enacted the subsidiary company will enter into land use agreements with land owners in Nandi County to enable the company to use their land for dairy development. The agreement shall indicate the duration of land use agreement contract (which shall be not less than 25 years), the criteria/formulae of sharing profits or loss between the land owners and the company, and project continuation under land owners majority control at the end of the land use agreement that entails the transfer of 51% residents shareholding in the subsidiary company to the land owners as per percentage land value contributed by each land owner and refund of the original 51% shareholding (equivalent to 51% of the start-up capital injection) due to original resident investors at the end of the land use agreement.

4. The profit sharing shall be according to the following formulae:

a. Total Capital = [Land Market Value] + [Start-up Cash Capital] b. Total Net Profit/Loss = [Net Profit/Loss due to Land Owner] + [Net Profit/Loss

due to Start-up Cash Capital Investor]

c. Thus;

d. Total Net Profit/Loss = [Land Value/Total Capital x Total Net Profit/Loss] + [Start-up Cash Capital/Total Capital x Total Net Profit/Loss]

e. Therefore;

f. Net Profit/Loss due to the land owner is = [Land Owner’s Land Used-

Value/Total Capital x Total Net Profit/Loss]

g. Where: Total Capital: The total value of capital in terms of land value used, and money used to establish infrastructure in the land and the subsequent cash used to jump start the production.


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Land Market Value: The liberal market price of the land used at the time of starting the development project. Start-up Cash Capital: Moneys used to establish infrastructure in the land and the subsequent cash used to jump start the production Total Net Profit/Loss: Profit after deductions of taxes and other requisite remittances.

5. On completion of signing the land use agreement, Nandi Dairy Development Ltd will use embryo transfer technology to produce pure dairy heifers capable of producing an average of 40-60 litres/kg of milk per day on intensive management practices, the heifers are to be reproduced using imported pure bred embryos and surrogate local cows.

6. As pure bred dairy heifer are being reproduced, the company will establish all the requisite infrastructure to cater for 6,000 dairy heifers per Ward, each dairy production Ward having 30 dairy hubs each hosting 200 pure bred dairy heifers. Ward Resources Centres shall serve as the site for milk preservation coolers installations, bulge imported dry-feeds warehouses, offices block and employees residences.

7. The subsidiary company will operate under contract farming agreements with Rift Valley Dairy Processors Group for it to supply milk to the processor. The subsidiary company will pay land owners 50% of dividends due to them every end month and the balance at the end of the year as bonuses after working out the company’s fiscal profit and loss accounts.

4.5.2. Rural Development Agro-Processing Companies

Agro-processing companies are to be based within the agricultural produce site of production, they include the following:-

1. Rift Valley Sugar Processing Group 2. Rift Valley Coffee Blenders Group 3. Rift Valley Tea Blenders Group 4. Rift Valley Meat Processing Group 5. Rift Valley Dairy Processors Group 6. Rift Valley Honey Refineries Group 7. Rift Valley Canning Group 8. Rift Valley Sisal Mills Group 9. Rift Valley Cotton Mill Group 10. Rift Valley Seeds Company Group 11. Rift Valley Fisheries Group 12. Rift Valley Beverages Group 13. Rift Valley Unga Mills Group 14. Rift Valley Pyrethrum Processing Group

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The companies are to be based at the site of natural resources reserves, the companies are to mine/lumber the resources and process into end user products. They include, among others, the following:-

1. Rift Valley Mining (RVM) Group 2. Rift Valley Clay Works (RVCW) Group 3. Rift Valley Electric Power (RVEP) Group 4. Rift Valley Paper Mills (RVPM) Group

4.6. Resource Centres

1. County Resource Centres (CRC) 2. Constituency Resource Centres (ConsRC) 3. Ward Resource Centres (WRC)

Ward Resource Centres

1. Each Ward to host 2 Ward Resource Centres (WRCs) equitably distributed, each covering an area of 25 hectares.

2. To serve as lowest units of cluster settlement for provisions of quality services and to mitigate agricultural land subdivision, and to host agricultural development subsidiary companies office blocks and residential estates.

3. Ward resource centres will contain local health facilities, local learning facilities e.g. day/boarding primary school, village polytechnic/tertiary institute, local retail/wholesale consumer good supply chain, local transport means (lorry truck and tractor), local water supply installation, internet-cafe’ and hotel, conference and recreational facilities among other basic investments.

Table 5: Ward Resource Centre Land Use Plan Economic Sector Percentage

allocation (%)

Hectares (Hect.)

Public utility/Roads, Churches, Sewage, Playground, Parks 10 2.5 Industrial/Rural Dev. Co. and other Companies Facilities 4 1 Commercial/Valmart Mall, [Ward site name], open air market sheds.

4 1

Office block/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Ward name] office block, & company specific office blocks.

2 0.5

Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Ward site name] 2 0.5

Teaching institutions/Valley Academy, [Ward site name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Ward site name].

22 5.5

Medical institution/Valley Clinic, [Ward site name] 4 1 Residential estates/ /Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Ward name] residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates

48 12


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Local consumption horticultural farm 4 1 Total 100 25 [Ward site name] – To be replaced with the name of the specific site hosting the Ward Resource Centre.


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Constituency Resource Centres

Constituency resource centre will host the following investments among others: Hospital with modern maternity ward, boarding primary school, tertiary institute, wholesale & retail consumer goods supply chain, transport means for hire e.g. lorry tracks and tractors, residential estate and commercial building, hotel, conference and recreational facilities. Table 6: Constituency Resource Centre Land Use Plan Economic Sector Percentage

allocation (%)

Hectares (Hect.)

Public utility/Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Parks 10 5 Industrial/Rural Dev. Co. and other Companies Facilities 15 7.5 Commercial/Valmart Mall, [Const. name], open air market sheds & Banking halls

5 2.5

Office block/ Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Constituency name] office block, & company specific office blocks

5 2.5

Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Const. name] 5 2.5 Teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [Const. name] & Valley Boys' High Sch., [Const. name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Const. site name], Valley Youth Polytechnic, [Constituency name]

30 15

Medical institution/Valley Hosp., [Const. name] 5 2.5 Residential estates/ /Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Constituency name] residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates

20 10

Local consumption horticultural farm 5 2.5 Total 100 50 [Constituency name] – To be replaced with the name of the constituency hosting the resource centre.

County Resource Centres

Fourteen County Resource Centres each having consumer goods wholesale and retail supply chain store, polytechnic/tertiary College, high school, modern hospital, RVCB/RVIB/SICNET branch, residential estate, commercial buildings, national hotel with golf course, cultural and recreational facilities, among other investments.


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Table 7: County Resource Centre Land Use Plan Economic Sector Percentage

allocation (%)

Hectares

Public utility/Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Parks 10 10 Industrial/Rural Dev. Co. and other Companies Facilities 15 15 Commercial/Valmart Mall, [County name], open air market sheds & Banking halls

5 5

Office block/ Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [County name] office block, & company specific office blocks.

2.5 2.5

Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [County name] 2.5 2.5 Teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [County name], Valley Boys' High Sch., [County name], Valley Teachers College, [County name], Valley Medical College, [County name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [County site name].

50 50

Medical institution/Valley Teaching Hosp., [County name] 2.5 2.5 Residential estates/ /Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [County name] residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates

10 10

Local consumption horticultural farm 2.5 2.5 Total 100 100 [County name] – To be replaced with the name of the county hosting the resource centre. The County resource centres are as follows-

1. Turkana Resource Centre; 2. West Pokot Resource Centre; 3. Endebes Resource Centre; 4. Elgeyo/Marakwet Resource Centre; 5. Uasin Gishu Centre; 6. Nandi Resource Centre; 7. Baringo Resource Centre; 8. Nakuru Resource Centre; 9. Samburu Resource Centre; 10. Nyahururu Resource Centre 11. Kericho Resource Centre; 12. Bomet Resource Centre. 13. Narok Resource Centre; 14. Kajiado Resource Centre


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Figure 1: The Proposed Specialized Cities and Modern Towns

NCC

KAPT

KRC

EIC

LT

ST KT

NT

NCC: Nakuru Commercia City KRC: Kajiado Resort City EIC: Eldoret Industrial City NT: Nanyuki Town KAPT: Kaplong Town ST: Samburu Town KT: Kitale Town LT: Lodwar Town


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4.7. The Proposed Modern Towns

Table 8: Towns Land Use Plan

Economic Sector Percentage allocation (%)

Hectares

Public utility/Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Public Parks & other public institutions

10 200

Aerodrome/[Town name] Airport 1.25 25 Industrial/Rural Dev. Co., & other Companies Facilities

2.5 50

Commercial/Specialized Valmart Malls & Wholesale depots cluster, [Town name], open-air market sheds, & Banking halls (i.e. Wholesale-retail Hub)

25 500

Office block/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Town name] office block, & company specific offices

1.25 25

Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Town name], Valley restaurant, [Town name]

1.25 25

Basic teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [Town name], Valley Boys' High Sch., [Town name], Valley Academy, [Town name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Town site name].

15 300

Higher education institution/Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), [Town name] Campus; Rift Valley Institute of Technology, [Town name] campus; Valley Advanced Medical College, [Town name],

25 500

Medical institutions/Valley Teaching & Referral Hosp., [Town name]

1.25 25

Residential estates/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, [Town name] residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates

16.25 325

Local consumption horticultural farm 1.25 25 Total 100 2000


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4.7.1. Nanyuki Town

1. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Referral Healthcare services d. Regional primary and secondary education services e. Regional sports and entertainment centre f. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities

2. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of Baringo and Laikipia Counties residents;

4.7.2. Samburu Town

1. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Referral Healthcare services d. Regional primary and secondary education services e. Regional sports and entertainment centre f. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities

2. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of Samburu County residents;

4.7.3. Kitale Town

1. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Referral Healthcare services d. Regional primary and secondary education services e. Regional sports and entertainment centre

2. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of Trans Nzoia County residents;

4.7.4. Lodwar Town

1. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Referral Healthcare services d. Regional primary and secondary education services e. Regional Petro-chemical industrial hub f. Regional sports and entertainment centre g. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities

2. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of Turkana County residents; 3. To host Valley Petroleum Refinery Ltd and allied Petro-chemical industries i.e.

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4.7.5. Kaplong Town

1. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Referral Healthcare services d. Regional primary and secondary education services e. Regional sports and entertainment centre

2. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of South Rift counties residents; 4.8. The Proposed Specialized Cities

4.8.1. Specialized Cities Establishment Policy Instruments

1. Industrial concentration in appropriate economic sites; 2. Specialization driven by site specific resources availability and regional market

demands; 3. Short –term and long-term security concerns safeguards; 4. Vertical and horizontal economic integration; 5. Proximity to east and central African market; 6. Mass production export-oriented manufacturing, agro-processing & service

delivery; 7. Regional international standard infrastructural and info-structural development; 8. Adherence to international aesthetic values, production processes & services

delivery standards; 9. Enhancing innovative human resource development via learning institution –

industry linkages especially through continues work-study programs for tertiary institute and university students and industry consultancy services provision by academic staff;

10. International class city designs and public utilities; 11. Each facility/building to encompass 24 hour child-care service common room and

open children play area to promote maternal & child care including exclusive 6 month breast feeding.

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4.8.2. City and Modern Town Planning Guiding Principles

Cities under RVDA developmental mandate are to be planned according to international standards of city planning, which includes:-

1. The building code will be such that all buildings (except industrial plants and residential houses) will have to be 60% glass and 40% concrete; to give the whole city/town area a glassy modern look;

2. Office block park to comprise modern design high-rise buildings (sky-scrapers); 3. The environment to comprise of adequate spacious green areas, waterfalls, artificial

lakes, special attractive par ks and other landscaping features to stand as the unique background to buildings i.e. Adequate greening of the cities/towns for every resident to enjoy sufficient green space;

4. Cities and towns to have high speed broadband network (fiber optic) connected to all buildings to ensure fast, secure and uninterrupted data exchange, voice and video transmission, virtual private network connections, cable television and video conferencing systems.

5. Integrated Urban Mass Rapid Transit System (high speed electric train networks– Valley Railway Service Ltd to operate commuter trains propelled by electric-cum-magnetic power at 250 km per hour) connected to strategic high population/populated sites and appropriately designed multi-lanes superhighways and highway future expansion well manicured road reserves;

6. Multi-storey car parks equitably distributed at strategic locations in the city centre; 7. Efficient solid waste disposal system integration that include onsite appropriate

solid waste recycling and reparation/destruction/incineration; 8. Adequate pedestrian walkways networks and over-head walkways connecting high-

rise buildings; 9. Large format outlets i.e. wholesale - retail hubs (specialized depots - wholesales &

retail market; specialized valmart hypermarkets) created at strategic sites - well spaced sites along the transport corridors and Valley coach stage and other bus stages. Valmart Grocery Ltd will establish groceries of equitable sizes across all residential areas;

10. The currently existing central business district (CBD) of the towns: Nakuru, Naivasha, Eldoret, Kajiado, Kitale, Lodwar and Nanyuki and others within the sites of the proposed cities and modern towns will only host consumer goods supply chain specialist supermarkets, hotel and restaurants and other basic suppliers that include: Fresh farm produce wholesale markets i.e. Valmart grocery, petroleum products retail filling stations, RVDB and RVIB branches, expansive multi-storey specialized wholesale/retail stores or singly situated specialist stores i.e. Valmart electronics and appliances, Valmart Clothings & Footwear, Valmart Butchery, Valmart Hardware, Valmart Bookshop, Valmart Pharmacy, Valmart Agrovet, Valmart Beauty Saloon, Valmart Virtual Mall (to cater for purchase via online order and home delivery facilitated by Valley Courier Services Ltd) e.t.c. and Valley Internet & Computer Service, multi-storey Valley Restaurant (or singly situated restaurant halls) – each floor/hall catering for different class of customers, [all the specialized valmart stores and associated service providers may be hosted in a single expansive multi-storey building (hypermarket like Sarit Centre) fitted with


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multiple lifts and moving stairways/escalators], and Valley Coach bus terminuses-stages.

4.8.2.1. Division of Specialized Cities into Hubs

Depending on areas of specialization, each city will host a number of hubs which may include: 1. Office Blocks park; 2. Wholesale & retail services hub; 3. Financial services hub; 4. Training and healthcare services hub; 5. Hospitality & entertainment services hub; 6. Consumer goods manufacturing industrial hub; 7. Heavy duty industrial hub; 8. Agro-processing industrial hub; 9. Capital intensive agricultural production hub; 10. Residential estates hub

4.8.3. Nakuru Commercial City

1. To be developed according to the proposed Tatu City design 2. Areas of specialization capacities will include:

a. International wholesale & retail services b. National Banking Services c. International Healthcare services d. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities e. National primary and secondary education services f. International University level training services g. International capacity technical training services h. Export-oriented capital intensive large-scale horticultural production i. International capacity horticultural produce processing plants

3. It will serve as the head quarters of RVDA and all its entities, and all the RVIB managed companies offering basic services across Rift Valley Community e.g. Rift Valley University of Technology, Rift Valley Construction Company Group; Rift Valley Medical University, Rift Valley Housing Development Group, Rift Valley Water & Sanitation Group, Rift Valley Electric Power Group, Rift Valley Hotels Group, Rift Valley Petroleum Products Group, Rift Valley Transport Group, Valmart Group, Rift Valley Sports Group, Rift Valley City Councils Group, Rift Valley Security Service Group, and applicable rural development companies.

4. host a 75,000 hectare horticultural farm (green houses and open irrigation farms) to immediately generate 1.2 million employment opportunities for trained and untrained personnel;

5. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of south and central Rift residents; 6. Host Nakuru International Airport, Nakuru International Conference Centre, L.

Nakuru Tourist Resort, L. Naivasha Tourist Resort, L. Elmentaita Wildlife Resort e.t.c.


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Table 9: Nakuru Commercial City Land Use Plan

Economic Sector

Percentage allocation (%)

Hectares

Public utility/, Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Public Parks, and other Public institutions 10.0 15,000 Airodrome/Nakuru International Airport 1.0 1,500 Industrial/Industrial Co., & other Companies Facilities 1.7 2,500 Commercial/Specialised Valmart Malls & Wholesale depots clusters, open air market sheds, and Rift Valley Development Bank & Rift Valley Investment Bank banking halls [Nakuru site name](i.e. Big Box Boulevards)

1.7 2,500 Office block/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Nakuru office block, & company specific office blocks 0.3 500 Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Nakuru location site name]; Valley restaurant, [Nakuru location site name]; L. Naivasha Tourists' Resort Ltd; L. Elmentaita Wildlife Resort Ltd; L. Nakuru Tourists' Resort.

16.7 25,000 Basic teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [Nakuru site name]; Valley Boys' High Sch., [Nakuru site name]; Valley International School, [Nakuru site name]; Valley School of Special Education, Nakuru, Valley Academy, [Nakuru site name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Nakuru site name].. 2.7 4,000 Higher education institutions/Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Nakuru campus; Rift Valley Institute of Technology, Nakuru campus, 2.0 3,000 Medical institutions/Rift Valley University Hospital, Nakuru; Rift Valley Medical University, Nakuru campus, 1.0 1,500 Residential estates/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Nakuru residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates 12.7 19,000 Export-Oriented Commercial Agriculture/Nakuru City Horticultural Development Group 50.0 75,000 Local consumption horticultural farm 0.3 500 Total 100.0 150,000


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Figure : Computer pictures depicting the proposed Tatu City, source www.tatucity.com

Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Regional wholesale & retail services b. Regional Banking Services c. Regional Healthcare services d. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities e. Regional primary and secondary education services f. National University level training services g. National capacity technical training services h. Export-oriented capital intensive large-scale horticultural production i. International capacity horticultural produce processing plants

2. It will serve as the head quarters of RVDA and all its entities, and all the RVIB managed companies offering basic services across Rift Valley Community e.g. Rift Valley University of Technology, Rift Valley Construction Company Group; Rift Valley Medical University, Rift Valley Housing Development Group, Rift Valley Water & Sanitation Group, Rift Valley Electric Power Group, Rift Valley Hotels Group, Rift Valley Petroleum Products Group, Rift Valley Transport Group, Valmart Group, Rift Valley Sports Group, Rift Valley City Councils Group, Rift Valley Security Service Group, and applicable rural development companies.

3. host a 75,000 hectare horticultural farm (green houses and open irrigation farms) to immediately generate 1.2 million employment opportunities for trained and untrained personnel;

4. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of south and central Rift residents; 5. Host L. Nakuru Tourist Resort. a.

Figure 2: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Tatu City, source www.tatucity.com

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Figure 3: Picture of the most beautiful University, The University Medical Center whose design will be adopted by the proposed Rift Valley University of Technology, Nakuru Main Campus, to be developed as diversification and upgrading of the current Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology (RVIST)

Figure 4: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Sergoit Golf & Wildlife Resort www.sergoit.co.ke showing residential villas, the design will be adopted in the development of residential estate for top RVDA directorship, along the slopes of Koibatek hills facing the head quarters City.


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4.8.4. Eldoret Industrial City

Eldoret Industrial City Land Use Plan

Figure 5: The site of the proposed Eldoret Industrial City.

Economic Sector Percentage allocation (%)

Hectares

Eldoret Industrial City

Valley Railways Service Ltd Railway Line, and Twelve Lane Superhighway

Eldoret International Airport

Sergoit Golf & Wildlife Resort Eldoret Industrial City

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Table 10: Eldoret Industrial City Land Use Plan

Public utility/Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Public Parks; Public institutions 10.0 7,500 Industrial/Industrial Co., & other Companies Facilities 26.7 20,000 Commercial/Specialised Valmart Malls & Wholesale depots clusters, open air market sheds, & Rift Valley Development Bank & Rift Valley Investment Bank banking halls [Eldoret site name](i.e. Big Box Boulevards) 3.3 2,500 Office block/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Eldoret office block, & company specific office blocks 0.7 500 Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Eldoret location site name]; Valley restaurant, [Eldoret location site name]. 3.3 2,500 Basic teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [Eldoret site name]; Valley Boys' High Sch., [Eldoret site name]; Valley International School, [Eldoret site name];Valley Academy, [Eldoret site name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Eldoret site name]. 5.3 4,000 Higher education institutions/Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Eldoret campus; Rift Valley Institute of Technology, Eldoret campus, 4.0 3,000 Medical institutions/Rift Valley University Hospital, Eldoret; Rift Valley Medical University, Eldoret campus, 2.0 1,500 Residential estates/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Eldoret residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates 44.0 33,000 Local consumption horticultural farm 0.7 500 Total 100.0 75,000


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1. The proposed Eldoret Industrial City will be developed according to Silicon Valley

design for the industrial hub/park and Konza technology city design for the office block park.

2. Areas of specialization capacities will include: a. Export-oriented manufacturing/production factories; b. International schools; c. International wholesale & retail services; d. International Banking Services; e. International Healthcare services; f. National primary and secondary education services; g. International University level training services; h. International technical training services;

3. It will be the main site for cluster settlement of north Rift residents. 4. All the manufacturing plants/factories and service industries will be designed for

mass productions/service provision enough to serve East and Central African and Ethiopian market.

5. It will serve as headquarter of all the export-oriented manufacturing/production factories, and applicable rural development companies.

Figure 6: A views of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed "Capital of Silicon Valley”, Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations.


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Figure 7: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Konza Technology City www.konzacity.co.ke , the design will be adopted in the development of the Eldoret Industrial City Office Block Park

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4.8.5. Kajiado Resort City

4.

Figure 8: The site of the proposed Kajiado Resort City.

Kajiado Resort City (75,000 Hectares)

Valley Railways Service Ltd Railway line, and Twelve Lane Superhighway

Konza Resort City (48,000 Hectares; to be owned and managed by Lower Eastern Development Authority -LEDA)

Konza Technology City


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Table 11: Kajiado Resort City Land Use Plan

Economic Sector

Percentage allocation (%)

Hectares

Public utility/Roads, Bus stages, Sewage, Playgrounds, Public Parks, Public institutions 10 7,500 Aerodrome/Kajiado Airstrip 0.7 500 Industrial/Industrial Co., & other Companies Facilities 6.6 5,000 Commercial/Specialised Valmart Malls & Wholesale depots clusters, open air market sheds & Rift Valley Development Bank & Rift Valley Investment Bank banking halls [Kajiado site name](i.e. Wholesale-retail Hub) 3.3 2,500 Office block/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Kajiado office block, & company specific office blocks 0.7 500 Hospitality & Tourism/Valley Hotel, [Kajiado location site name]; Valley restaurant, [Kajiado location site name]; Kajiado Maasai Cultural Resort. 1.3 1,000 Basic teaching institutions/Valley Girls' High Sch., [Kajiado site name]; Valley Boys' High Sch., [Kajiado site name]; Valley International School, [Kajiado site name];Valley Academy, [Kajiado site name], Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service, [Kajiado site name]. 5.3 4,000 Higher education institutions/Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), Kajiado campus; Rift Valley Institute of Technology, Kajiado campus. 4 3,000 Medical institutions/Rift Valley University Hospital, Kajiado; Rift Valley Medical University, Kajiado campus, 2 1,500 Residential estates/Valley Housing Dev. Ltd, Kajiado residential estates, & company specific staff residential estates 65.3 49,000 Local consumption horticultural farm 0.7 500 Total 100 75,000


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Figure 9: Artiste’s impression of the proposed Kilamba Kiaxi Resort City, Angola.

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1. Kajiado Resort City is to be developed according to Kilamba Kiaxi (resort city 30km from Duala, Angola) and Thika greens residential resort design.

2. Areas of specialization capacities will include: 4.8. Tailor-made mass residential estates; 4.9. Tailor-made mass office spaces/buildings; 4.10. International schools; 4.11. International wholesale & retail services; 4.12. International caliber tourist resort encompassing conference facilities; 4.13. International Banking Services; 4.14. International Healthcare services; 4.15. National primary and secondary education services; 4.16. International University level training services; 4.17. International technical training services; 4.18. Mini horticultural crops production for only domestic consumptions.

4.9. Specialized Cities and Modern Towns Based Company Groups Samples

4.9.1. Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT)

1. To built and education system that promotes creativity and critical thinking in the students from early age, through collaboration with RVIB R&D divisions - RVIPI and RVBRI in their day to day research activities e.g. RVIPI research field plots to be based in learning institutions compound or proximity and the day to day field research activities to be done by teachers/lecturers/professors in company of their students.

2. To ensure high degree of industry relevance in training programs 3. To host Rift Valley Investment Policy Institute (RVIPI) 4. To provide all its international and local students decent hostels that encompass

student mothers’ hostels enclosed with 24 hour child-care service and pre-school service centres.

5. To work in conjunction with RVIB to develop bills to be introduced in parliament to enable the national government to introduce unit costing in University students partial government sponsorship, once enacted it will enable national government partially sponsored university studentship candidates to joint any Kenyan University of choice using the partial sponsorship vouchers. The above provision is to apply across the academic levels i.e. from primary schools to tertiary institutions and university.

6. Higher education training institutions under RVUT will have 4 study models, 1 for the students on fulltime 3 semester per year crush program, for the students on fulltime 2 semester program, to cater for fulltime employees part-time evening studies – to be based in RVUT/RVIT Short Courses Centre, another to cater for students who are on ½ day bases, the model for students on ½ day bases shall adjust their timetables to allow students ½ day each day for part-time employment, hence their semesters shall be longer than in the other model for example be 5.5 months to allow 2 weeks in between successive semesters.


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7. Each University campus e.g. RVUT, Nakuru Campus, will establish different schools (faculties) at different locations of the city - based on associated industrial locations, for example, School of Agriculture will be located adjacent to Nakuru City Horticultural Development Ltd farms, School of Commerce – adjacent to Valley Wholesale-Retail Hub, School of Engineering – adjacent to Industrial Hub/Area, School of Tourism & Hospitality – adjacent to Tourism & Hospitality Hub (L. Nakuru Tourist Resort, Nakuru International Conference Centre and Valley Hotel-Nakuru). This is to facilitate students to pursue ½ day part-time positions in the area of their specializations and equitable distribution all over the city of students’ ½ day part-time human resources.

8. To offer distance learning and e-learning services, particularly online diplomas and degrees.

9. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Rift Valley University of Technology (RVUT), [City/Town Campus]; b. Rift Valley Institute of Technology (RVIT), [City/Town Campus]; c. Valley Teachers College Ltd, [County]; d. Valley Boys' High School, [City Name]; e. Valley International Schools Ltd; f. [County Name] Educational Services Ltd and others

10. [County] Education Services Companies a. To offer academies (mixed day/boarding primary schools) based in Ward

resource centres & other resource centres (i.e. Valley Academy - [County/Constituency name/Ward name]) and High schools (Valley Girls’ High School – [County/Constituency name], Valley Boys’ High School – [County/Constituency name]) based in county and constituency resource centres;

b. To operate 24 hour child care services within the boundaries of jurisdictions; c. Service host County government pre-schools, village polytechnics, home craft

centres requirements via the RVIB Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU);

4.9.2. Rift Valley Medical University (RVMU)

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Rift Valley University Hospital (RVUH); b. Rift Valley Medical College (RVMC); c. Rift Valley Senior’s Home (RVSH); d. Rift Valley Hospice (RVH); e. [County] Healthcare Services ltd and others.

2. To offer medical education service from diploma to higher degree levels; 3. To create a number of centres offering assistance to people who need help with

activities of daily living, but wish to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible - provision of seniors homes to promotes active ageing and productive living;


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4. Key services offered under the umbrella of seniors living would be integrated personal assistance, domiciliary, personal and medical care.

5. Valley Advanced Medical Colleges to offer specialized medical training at Higher National Diploma levels.

6. To promote efficient specialized healthcare via E-Healthcare/Telemedicine 7. To host Rift Valley Biomedical Research Institute (RVBRI) 8. [County] Healthcare Services ltd;

a. To offer healthcare services at County, Constituency and Ward resource centre levels;

b. Service member County government public health services requirements via the RVIB Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU);

c. Offer emergency healthcare services that include ambulance service to the host County residents.

d. County Healthcare Services companies will be contracted by host county government through Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU) in RVIB, to manage all the county healthcare and pubic services within the county.

4.9.3. Nakuru Horticultural Development (NHD) Group

1. To lease 75000 hectare land in Nakuru City and develop specialized export-oriented horticultural farms using modern agricultural technologies.

2. The specific site for horticultural development will be identified based on being within or proximity to rechargeable Rift aquifer that include L. Naivasha basin basal aquifer, Menengai aquifer, Nyahururu water tower aquifer and Mau Complex water tower aquifer.

3. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Nakuru City Roses Ltd; b. Nakuru City Orchards Ltd; c. Nakuru City Herbs & Vegetables Ltd and others .

4.9.4. Rift Valley Bio-Medical (RVBM) Group

1. To specialize in the manufacture of biomedical instruments base on electrical and electronic technology, rubber-based products that includes orthopaedic replacement devices, in-vitro diagnostic kits and dental surgical products and other medical devices that can be consumed in the local market and for export.

2. The group will establish subsidiaries according to strategic investors’ technology transfers and mutual agreements based on products patent issues.

4.9.5. Rift Valley Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (RVPM) Group

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4.9.6. Rift Valley Transports (RVT) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Valley Railway Services Ltd; b. Valley Airports Co. Ltd; c. Valley Airlines Ltd; d. Valley Coach Ltd; e. Valley Automobile Assembly Ltd; f. Valley Transporters Ltd; g. Valley Auto-Workshop Ltd; h. Valley Freight Forwarding Ltd; i. Valley Courier Services Ltd and others.

2. Valley Transporters Ltd and Valley Coach Ltd to establish and manage adequate commercial long distance tracks parking yards or bus stages along its road corridors of service, that include passenger boarding stages in all the RVC cities, Nairobi city, Kisumu city, Mombasa city, and county and constituency resource centres.

3. Valley Coach Ltd will operate intra-city, inter-city, inter-city-county/constituency resource centres. Will provide for passenger mass transport services and taxi services linking Valley Railway Services Ltd passenger stations.

4. It Valley Coach Ltd will also service passenger transport services of member county governments, RVDA’s entities and RVIB managed companies via RVIB’s Outsourcing Liaison Unit (OLU).

5. Valley Airports Co. Ltd to spearhead construction and operation of commercial Airports in Rift Valley Community; to prioritize construction of Nakuru International Airport (at a initial cost of KES 4 billion) and Masai Mara Airport (at a initial cost of KES 1 billion). To construct other Airports in the following dissenting order of priority: Lodwar International Airport, Kitale Airport, Kaplong Airport and Nanyuki Airport.

6. Valley Railways Services Ltd to establish, manage and operate high speed electric train transport systems in high traffic zones e.g. Nairobi city-Konza Technology city-Kajiado Resort city triangle, and operate intra-city (Kajiado, Nakuru, Eldoret) integrated urban mass rapid transit system (high speed electric rail system). The entire railway network will run on an elevated platform with stations and maintenance depots to service passenger need. The Valley Railways Services Ltd commuter trains will be propelled by electric-cum-magnetic power at 250 km per hour speed.

7. To spearhead establishment of public-private partnership - built operate transfer model with governments of Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan to enable the Valley Railways Services Ltd to up-grade and electrify the Kenya-Uganda railroad, and to extend the railroad to Juba Southern Sudan through Gulu Town Uganda. Further more, spearhead liberalization of the railroad through development of an appropriate bill (in conjunction with RVIPI) - for Kenya, to enable every train operator to use the rail road as is the case for tarmac roads.


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8. After liberalization of Kenya-Uganda railroad transport system, Valley Railways

Service Ltd will operate affordable rapid mass heavy load transportation services. 9. Valley Courier Services Ltd to offer global parcel delivery service enabled with

online tracing software and transport forwarding services.

Rift Valley Housing (RVH) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service

providing subsidiaries that include: a. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Kajiado; b. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Eldoret; c. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Nakuru; d. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Nanyuki; e. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Samburu; f. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Kitale; g. Valley Housing Development Ltd, Lodwar; h. [County] Housing Development Ltd and others.

2. To develop tailor made high-rise office blocks in RVDA’s cities & resource centres to provide affordable and decent office space for all RVDA’s entities, RVIB managed companies and other private consultants.

3. To provide adequate & decent housing for all RVDA employees and Nairobi City residents including low cost housing for low-income earners - this may involve construction using cheap building materials such as timber & other wood products and improvised clay or plastic materials.

4. To develop high-rise apartments, flats, bungalows, mansions, and commercial centres for sub-lease (for the remaining period after its lease of the land from RVILB), or for renting.

Figure 10: Railway network run on elevated platform


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4.9.8. Rift Valley Petro-Chemicals (RVPC) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Valley Petro-Chemicals Ltd; b. Valley Oil Ltd and others.

2. Transportation of oil and gas, processing of petro-chemicals, marketing and trading of end products;

3. To build and manage of oil storage system at each specialized city and town.

4.9.9. Rift Valley Electric Power (RVEP) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Valley Geothermal Power Ltd; b. Valley Hydropower Ltd; c. Valley Batteries Ltd; d. Valley Power Supply Ltd; e. Valley Rural Electrification (County) Ltd and others

2. To spearhead electric power generation, transmission and distribution; 3. Valley Power Supply Ltd: is to be mandated to build and maintain high voltage

lines connecting source of electric power generation and RVDA cities and County resource centres and distribution of electric power within the proposed cities and towns.

4. Valley Rural Electrification (County) Ltd, to spearhead distribution of electricity within host County covering resources centres and rural areas.

5. Valley Power Supply Ltd and Valley Rural Electrification (County name) Ltd will purchase electric power in wholesale from Rift Valley Electric Power Group and other power generating companies from within and abroad;

6. To spearhead energy conservation and energy efficiency methods that include facilitation for stallation of solar power systems and biogas systems to residential, and/or office and/or industrial buildings;

7. Advocate and facilitate development of solar power capacity, solar panels installation on residential roof-tops and on commercial and industrial premises;

8. To tap Rift Valley Community Geothermal power and hydropower potential; 9. To deploy nuclear energy for power generation in collaboration with the proposed

Pwani Development Authority (PDA). 10. Valley rural Electrification Ltd: This category of rural development companies is

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4.9.10. Rift Valley Hotels (RVH) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include: a. Kajiado Tourist Resort Ltd; b. Masaai Mara Tourist Resort Ltd; c. L. Naivasha Tourist Resort Ltd; d. Naivasha Wildlife Resort Ltd; e. L. Elementaita Tourist Resort Ltd; f. L. Nakuru Tourist Resort Ltd; g. Kerio Valley Tourist Resort Ltd; h. Nanyuki Tourist Resort Ltd; i. Samburu Tourist Resort Ltd; j. L. Turkana Tourist Resort Ltd; k. Valley Hotel Ltd, [City]; l. Valley Restaurant Ltd, [City]; m. [County] Hotel & Restaurant Ltd; n. Valley Safaris Ltd; o. Valley Curio Services Ltd and others.

2. To encourage shopping & wellness tourism in addition to academic tours as follows. RVHG charge its services at discounted rates to RVDA, RVIB and RVIB managed companies’ customers having customer points above certain points or otherwise discounts based on the number of customer points one has accumulated; RVMU referral patients and two of his/her care takers, and all students and academic staff under RVUT and RVMU will also benefit from the same. The discounts will be reimbursed by RVP&SEB

3. Valley Restaurants Ltd will be rated such that in a 9 storey restaurant, basement and ground floor is rated 1 star (*) – to cater for most-low income earner while 9th floor is rated 9 star (*********) to cater for most-high income earners luxurious lifestyles.

4. Valley Restaurants Ltd will establish food outlets/centres such as family restaurants, quick-service restaurants, cafes, bars and fine dining restaurants.

5. Resorts to comprise of, among others: Wildlife orphanage; sweeping pools; cultural heritage museum/library; cultural festivals/entertainment theatres; botanical garden; spa centre; family restaurant; residential villas/hostels; movie theatres; golf courses; mini stadium for indoor games; sports fields for various sports; emergency medical clinic; Valley Curio Mall; Valmart Beauty Saloon; Valmart Personal Products Mall; Valmart Clothing & Footwear Mall; Gymnasium; well insulated discotheque e.t.c..

6. Masai Mara Tourist Resort Ltd to host Masai Mara Airport, while Kajiado Cultural Resort to host Maasai Cultural Library.

7. The food centre will also provide attractions like sensory gardens, games and events arena and playgrounds, as well as having retail outlets like convenience stores and newsagents in collaboration with Valmart Group.

8. All the food staff based subsidiaries under the company group will operate a fresh pasteurized (cooked) milk and yoghurt dispensers, honey solution dispensers, and


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dispensers of a variety of freshly constituted fruit juice within their premises and in their nearby social places and public parks.

9. To spearhead development of Rift Valley Community into one of the world’s premium ecotourism destinations, and ensure standards of excellence in product packaging, service delivery and sustainable use;

10. To empower rural communities to offer entertainment services to tourists; 11. In conjunction with RVMU & Valmart Group to integrate wellness centres and

fully integrated wellness malls that provide all aspects of aesthetic treatments and enhancements complete with supporting retailing outlets;

12. To develop an Eco-nature Integrated Resort in different tourist attractive site of RVC;

13. To leverage on RVC’s competitive advantages in ecotourism and biodiversity, with attractions such wildlife, cultural heritage;

14. To develop world-class integrated cruise terminal and cruise playground on its Lake based tourist resorts;

15. Naivasha Wildlife Resort Ltd to establish and manage a game reserve within a 25,000 hectare conservancy and wildlife orphanage replica to Nairobi National Park Orphanage; traditional hunting and gatherer techniques to be demonstrated within the game reserve by different RVC cultural groups. The resort is to showcase RVC traditional hunter- gatherer artifacts & artillery.

16. To artistically produce traditional artifacts and other curio service items including offering the curio services at strategic tourist attracting sites and resorts;

17. To provide car-hire, tour guide services and other related services; 18. To hosting international events that include Rift Valley cultural festivals,

tournaments, focused large-scale sporting event in conjunction with Rift Valley Sports Group and SICNET, in addition to promoting a vibrant nightlife RVC necessary to attract tourists.

19. Valley City/Town Club Ltd to operate discotheques, night parties/music extravaganza and specialized night clubs which are to provide undisputable night life experience/taste to the cities and towns, its operations will be restricted to between 6 pm and 6 am weekdays and all day during weekends.

20. Rift Valley Hotels Group resorts and hotels conferences facilities are to encourage East African local tourism by offering local customers different service rates as compared to international rates, RVIB managed teaching/training institutions students are to be offered special highly discounted rates during low peak periods.

21. [County] Hotel & Restaurant Companies: the overall functions of companies under this category are:- a. To establish and operate hotels and restaurants based in County, Constituency

and Ward resource centres. b. to promote local tourist attraction sites and activities; c. to develop roadside conveniences along the major tourism highways in

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4.9.11. Rift Valley Water & Sanitation (RVWS) Group.

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include:- a. Kajiado Water & Sanitation Ltd; b. Eldoret Water & Sanitation Ltd; c. Nakuru Water & Sanitation Ltd; d. [County] Water & Sanitation Ltd

2. Kajiado Water & Sanitation Ltd to construct a major dam along Athi River and water & sanitation infrastructure to adequately cater for water supply and sanitation needs of Konza Resort City and Kajiado Resort City.

3. Eldoret Water & Sanitation Ltd in conjunctions with Nandi horticultural Development Ltd, Nandi Dairy Development Ltd and Valley Hydropower Ltd to develop multi-purpose at Chesumei-Yala River to service Eldoret Industrial City and Nandi County agricultural development needs and generate electricity;

4. [County] Water and Sanitation Companies: It will operate using the same model as Rural Electrification Companies, each County to have one such company. General functions to offer to their county of jursdiction include: a. Establishment and management of minor and major water and sanitation

infrastructure within rural and resource centres; b. Provide domestic and industrial water supply requirements; c. Provide sanitation services including sewerage services, solid waste disposal,

refuse dams management, and other environmental health services; d. Provide day to day outsourcing services on their area of mandate to their host

County Government. e. To priorities service provision to Resource Centres.

4.9.12. Rift Valley Construction (RVC) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include:- a. Rift Valley Construction Company Ltd b. [County] Construction Company Ltd

2. [County] Construction Companies: Each member County to have one such company, the functions of such companies in general terms will be:- a. Construction of rural roads and bridges within the County of their jurisdictions; b. Constuction of local commercial & residential estates i.e. County, Constituency

and Ward Resource Centres and residents private houses and other structures; c. Construction of local irrigation infrastructure and produce storage facilities d. To obtain sub-contracts from Rift Valley Construction Company (RVCC) when

undertaking major constructions within their county of jurisdictions, and su-contracts from sister construction companies based in other member counties.

e. To undertake day to day host County Government outsourcing services within their capacity and mandates e.g. public utilities routine maintenances services.


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4.9.13. Rift Valley Talents (RVT) Group

1. Talent Promotion Companies to manage sports facilities and talents 2. Each member County to have one such company. 3. The functions of such companies in general terms will be:-

a. To establish and operate talent promoting/cultivating primary/academy and secondary schools;

b. To establish and manage talent promoting, coaching and mentoring camp sites; c. To provide advisory and support services to talented persons in pursued of their

prosperity.

4.9.14. Valmart Group

1. To provide retail and wholesale services in Nairobi City and the proposed Cities, Towns and Resource Centres.

2. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include:- a. Valmart Household Goods Ltd; b. Valmart Agro-vet Ltd; c. Valmart Automotives Ltd; d. Valmart Machineries Ltd; e. Valmart Grocery Ltd; f. Valmart Butchery Ltd; g. Valmart Hardware Ltd; h. Valmart Pharmacy Ltd; i. Valmart Glassware Ltd; j. Valmart Lab Equipment & Supplies Ltd; k. Valmart Virtual Mall Ltd; l. Valmart Beauty Saloon Ltd; m. Valmart Personal Products Ltd; n. Valmart Bookshop Ltd; o. Valmart Electronics & Electricals Ltd; p. Valmart Furniture & Houseware Ltd; q. Valmart Clothing & Footwear Ltd; r. Valmart Toys & Sporting Goods Ltd; s. Valmart Open-Air Market Ltd; t. [County] Wholesale-Retail Services Ltd and others

3. To established its operations in RVC and Nairobi City Market for the first 5 years followed by subsequent rolling out of its service in all constituency head quarter in Kenya and major towns in East and Central Africa;

4. Valmart Open-Air Market Ltd will develop open-air stalls and secure cubical warehouses in Nairobi City, and in the proposed Cities and Towns to provide cheap consumer goods market place for low income earners. The subsidiary will also procure in bulge all the goods to be sold in the market and subsequently sell to the


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stall operators in wholesale terms, [County] Wholesale-Retail Services Ltd shall replicate the same in Resource Centres.

4.9.14.1. Wholesale-Retail Hubs

1. The proposed Cities, Towns and Nairobi City Market are to host very large, integrated retail outlets for various categories of retail goods and specialized wholesale outlets concentrated within a single location to be referred as [City/Town site name] Wholesale-retail Hub . Each Wholesale-retail Hub based in the proposed cities and towns will cover a total of 500 hectares, while Nairobi City Market will host numerous Wholesale-retail Hubs based in proposed new Nairobi suburbs outside the CBD each covering an area of 0.5-5 hectares. The entire Wholesale-retail Hub based commercial agencies and auxiliary offices are to operate 24 hour-7 days a week all year long.

2. The Wholesale-retail Hub to be designed and established according to international design standards emphasizing aesthetics and functionality balance, road and other communication networks, lighting system and public utilities to provide room for future expansions.

3. Each specialized Valmart mall is to cover 5,000 square metre (e.g. 50mx100m – 1 acre) hall(s) in a T-shaped 6-10 storey building with centrally placed open area fitted with multiple mobile stair ways and lifts. The floors are to be allocated to each specialized Valmart mall according to the weight of its commodities on sale e.g. Valmart Hardware Ltd to be based in the ground floor while Valmart Beauty Saloon Ltd (Saloon, Kinyozi and beauty products hall) to be based in the top most floor.

4. Each proposed City and Town based Wholesale-retail Hub to host amongst others: 5. Specialized Valmart retail malls and their corresponding wholesale depots under the

following categories among others: a. Valmart Household Goods Ltd ; b. Valmart Agro-vet Ltd; c. Valmart Automotives Ltd; d. Valmart Machineries Ltd; e. Valmart Grocery Ltd; f. Valmart Butchery Ltd; g. Valmart Hardware Ltd; h. Valmart Pharmacy Ltd; i. Valmart Glassware Ltd; j. Valmart Lab Equipment & Supplies Ltd; k. Valmart Virtual Mall Ltd; l. Valmart Beauty Saloon Ltd; m. Valmart Personal Products Ltd; n. Valmart Bookshop Ltd; o. Valmart Electronics & Electricals Ltd; p. Valmart Furniture & Houseware Ltd; q. Valmart Clothing & Footwear Ltd; r. Valmart Toys & Sporting Goods Ltd;


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6. Essential commercial agencies’ business halls/spaces and offices that among others include: a. RVIB & RVDB banking halls; b. Valmart Open-Air Markets Ltd open-air market sheds; c. Valley Pre-School & Child-Care Service Ltd playground; d. Valley Courier Service Ltd; e. Valley Security Service Ltd security watch towers; f. Valley Fire-brigade Service Ltd fire response engines; g. Valley CCTV Systems Ltd; h. Valley Train Service Ltd rapid mass transport system station; i. Valley Auto Garage Ltd workshops and car wash places; j. Valley Restaurant Ltd different star (caliber levels) food places and restaurant

bars; k. Valley Oil Ltd safely and strategically sited wholesale and filling stations; l. Valley Outpatient Clinic and interlinked Valley Outpatient Lab; m. RVUT, RVMU, RVIT and RVMC Short Courses Centres; n. Valley Internet & Computer Services Ltd; o. Valley Gymnasium Ltd gymnasium halls.

7. Essential auxiliary agencies’ offices and servicing area that among others include: a. Personal vehicles parking yards, Public service vehicles; parking yards, Transit

goods transport vehicles parking yards; b. Public service vehicles passenger bus stages; c. National police service station; d. Lighting system control rooms; e. Valmart warehouses. f. Valmart Autos & Machinery Ltd to operate large automotive and machinery

showrooms within the Big Box Boulevards; g. The BBB will be supported by food and beverage offered by Valley restaurant

Ltd; h. Varmart Group to be the sole operator of all RVIB managed companies’ deports

wholesale service; i. Valmart Virtual Mall Ltd to offer global online wholesale and retail sales and

delivery services, the deliveries will be facilitated by Valley Parcels & Forwarding Ltd.

j. [County] Wholesale-Retail Services Ltd: to operate Valmart multi-purpose stores offering wholesale & retail services at County level, 1 such company per county.

k. Valmart Grocery Ltd will establish mall in residential places.

4.9.15. Rift Valley Electrical & Electronics (RVEE) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include:- a. Valley Electrical & Electronics Components Ltd; b. Valley Computer Manufacturers Ltd; c. Valley Electrical Appliances Ltd;


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d. Valley Electronic Gadgets Ltd; e. Valley Cables Ltd and others

2. To focus on development & production of semiconductors, home appliances, industrial electronics , solar and Light emitting diodes (LED), wireless sensor technologies, agricultural processing equipment, industrial diagnostics tools, Measurement instruments, and Integrated Circuit Design and development among others;

3. To develop & produce wireless telecommunications and wireless radio communications providers;

4. To implement mature technology fabrication via developing assembly and test using advanced packaging technology and related industries;

5. To develop and produce communications and electrical cables.

4.9.16. Rift Valley Information Technology (RVIT) Group

1. In general, to establish, manage and operate a number of specialized product/service providing subsidiaries that include:- a. Valley Info-Structure Ltd; b. Valley Telecoms Ltd; c. Valley Internet Services Ltd; d. Valley Programming Services Ltd; e. Valley Data Services Ltd; f. [County] Internet Services Ltd and others

2. To develop, operate and maintain information technology infrastructure (info-structure) networks that include optic fiber networks;

3. To provide/service IT-enabled technologies such as data centres, business process outsourcing/business service application and cloud-computing services;

4. To provide wireless telecommunication and internet services; 5. To provide data processing/analysis, storage, archiving and retrieval services; 6. In conjunctions with RVIB’s R&D division, Valley Programming Services Ltd is to

develop tailor-make software application among others.

4.9.17. Rift Valley Security Services (RVSS) Group

In conjunctions with RVIB’s R&D division, the security service is to advice RVIB on security safeguards strategies on all RVDA assets, personnel and all other installations, which may include: appropriate-height concrete periphery fence; timely request for national police service to be seconded to reinforce security; development of appropriate bills to be introduced to parliament for the purpose of security assurance of public & private property and peoples’ life. All the company groups’ personnel are to be trained on disaster preparedness & response, and adequately equipped with disaster response equipment.


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Investment Land Acquisition

1. The Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) shall acquire all the investment land in behalf of RVDA.

2. The required investment land will be acquired according to the provisions of the constitution of Kenya, the policy provisions in the National Land Policy (NLP), international conventions on land, international declarations on land, common law doctrines especially aboriginal title doctrine, existing legislations and legislations to be enacted/amended to faithfully implement the constitutional, policy and international agreements on land.

3. Some pieces of investment land will be acquired through request to Government of Kenya via motions in parliament to grant public land awards to RVDA for agreed specialized infrastructural developments.

4. To comply with (a) C169 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989; (b) 61/295 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 2007; (c) Constitutional provisions on community land coupled with aboriginal title doctrine; and (d) Constitutional provisions on investments on land verses local communities’ economies. Special measures shall be adopted in acquisition of land traditionally occupied by indigenous people so as to appropriately safeguard their right to exercise control, to the extent possible, over their own economic, social and cultural development, and hence ensure their trans-generations sustainable socio-economic advancement & social security and to avoid future ancestral land court-claims by the concerned indigenous peoples’ descent. The special measures includes the following: a. That they will be compensated according to market value and the demarcated

land appropriately allocated at market value. b. According to their consent, the acquired land prompt financial compensation to

indigenous people is totally/partially directly or indirectly converted to shareholding in the RVIB managed companies of their choice, to safeguard the trans-generations socio-economic security.

c. Upon city/resource centre planning, land demarcation and allocation and lease to appropriate end user RVDA companies. The original land owners are to be given land sells bonuses equal to 50% profit made by RVILB, Thus, the original land owner indigenous people will benefit from the 3 digit (over 500%) percentage appreciation of the acquired land after appropriate demarcations and servicing. For example, RVILB will acquire 75,000 hectares each for Eldoret Industrial City and Kajiado Resort City at market prices of let say KES 2 million per hectare, spending approximately a total of KES 150 billion for city planning, demarcation, road network development, land scarping/beautification, and in facilitation of water & sanitation, electricity and internet cables (fibre optic) connections and other services. Thus, spending a total of KES 300 billion in land acquisition and servicing. Upon completion of the servicing, the land value at the industrial city will be the same as land value in Nairobi City (though RVILB will not charge the same lease fee as Nairobi city because RVDA will have mandated it to facilitate development), else RVILB will lease


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out 1 hectare of the land for 99 years at an approximate price/fee of KES 10 million and obtain a total of KES 750 billion. The profit made by RVILB will be KES 750 billion - KES 300 billion = KES 450 billion. Therefore the original land owners will be entitled to a total of 50% of KES 450 billion, which is equals to KES 3 million lands sell bonus per hectare to be paid to indigenous land suppliers (in other wards, investment land will have been purchased from the original land owner at the rate of KES 5 million per hectare). Indigenous land suppliers will be advised to invest the proceeds in RVDB, RVIB or RVIB managed companies to safeguard their trans-generations’ socio-economic security.

d. It is envisaged legislations will be enacted to guide on ancestral land court-claims and requirements for extinguishment of aboriginal title to enable RVDA to acquire its investment land in a procedure that will not result to future land claims by people purporting to hold aboriginal title or otherwise that the land is their ancestral land. In absence of guiding legislation on ancestral land court-claims, RVDA will seek guidance from Supreme Court before acquiring land under ancestral land court-claims or otherwise acquire the land after obtaining consent from the claimants. In whatever case, to avoid future indigenous peoples’ descents land court-claims, genuine indigenous claimants of ancestral land will be facilitated through adequate and timely loan package from RVDB to acquire the court-claimed land and subsequently sell to RVDA – thus, extinguishing their aboriginal title claims.

e. Land acquisition processes will be commenced and completed between January, 2013 and December, 2013 for Kajiado Resort City, Eldoret Industrial City and all Resource Centres, and between January, 2013 and December, 2015 for Nakuru Commercial City.

f. Land owners to indicate to the RVILB graveyard(s) to enable the board to accord respect, appropriately mark, conserve and maintain such sacred sites; such sites shall not be leased out as they are to remain public memorial and sacred sites.

5. Rift Valley Development Authority management committees shall review upwards the investment land reserves at an interval of 10 years. In that case, respective County governments shall put in place control measures to control land use within the environs of RVDA cities and resource centres as a prerequisite to future acquisitions; Land use around RVDA cities and resource centres shall be regulated by member County government legislations to ensure availability for acquisitions in future and to preserve aesthetics.

6. Currently existing Nakuru, Naivasha, Eldoret, and other member Counties towns’ CBD will not be acquired as a reserve area to host National and County Government administration offices and for private and multinational companies’ development.

7. RVDA management committee may review upwards investment land size to be acquired by RVILB at 10 years intervals or any time when need arises.

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a. Nakuru Commercial City: 150,000 hectares (Head Quarters City, at Nakuru town outskirts-to-Naivasha town outskirts along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway with emphasis on Rift aquifers bases);

b. Eldoret Industrial City: 75,000 hectares (City, at Eldoret town outskirts 10km width (20km radius from the town’s CBD, but not including 10km radius CBD area) clockwise circumferential touching Turbo and Eldoret International Airport);

c. Kajiado Resort City: 75,000 hectares (City, Kitengela-Konza-Kajiado Town outskirts Triagle)

d. Kaplong Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Kaplong Junction and outskirts);

e. Nanyuki Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Nanyuki CBD and outskirts); f. Samburu Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Archer’s Post CBD and

outskirts); g. Kitale Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Kitale town CBD and outskirts); h. Lodwar Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Lodwar town CBD and

outskirts); i. Turkana Resource Centre: 100 hectares; j. West Pokot Resource Centre: 100 hectares; k. Elgeyo Marakwet Resource Centre: 100 hectares; l. Nandi Resource Centre: 100 hectares; m. Baringo Resource Centre: 100 hectares; n. Maralal Resource Centre: 100 hectares; o. Kericho Resource Centre: 100 hectares; p. Bomet Resource Centre: 100 hectares; q. Nakuru Resource Centre: 100 hectares; r. Nyahururu Resource Centre: 100 hectares; s. Narok Resource Centre: 100 hectares; t. Uasin Gishu Resource Centre: 100 hectares; u. Trans Nzoia Resource Centre: 100 hectares; v. Kajiado Resource Centre: 100 hectares; w. Fifty hectares in each constituency head quarters for Constituency Resource

Centres; x. Twenty-five hectares in each Ward headquarters for Ward Resource Centres; y. Twenty five hectares at each agro-ecological zone for RVIPI’s land use

planning R&D activities; z. Nairobi City Valley Markets (NCVM): 100 hectares cumulatively, pieces of 3

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Investment Priority Projects

The investment projects will be prioritized as follows: 1. Establishment of RVDA and incorporation of RVILB, RVDB and RVIB, sourcing

for loans by member county governments and contributing the same to RVDF. 2. Investment land acquisition using portion of the RVDF. 3. Rift Valley Development Bank (RVDB) adequate financing using KES 420 billion

financial investment capital 4. Establishment of professional consultancy firm comprising city planners, architects,

agriculturalists, investment experts, civic & structural engineers and others experts needed in the investment scheme implementation. The will serve under RVILB and RVIPI.

5. Construction Materials Manufacturing and Supply Company, Civil and Structural Construction Company, Electricity Generation Company, Water and Sanitation Company, Petroleum Products Supply Company, Farm and agro-processing machinery Manufacturing Company, and other supportive companies

6. Establishment of the following commercial activities at CBDs of Nakuru, Eldoret, Kajiado, Kitale, Kaplong and Nanyuki town and at strategic locations equitably distributed in Nairobi city: consumer goods supply stores that include: Fresh farm produce wholesale markets i.e. Valmart wholesale grocery, petroleum products retail filling stations, RVDB and RVIB branches, Valmart electronics, Valmart Fashions, Valmart Butchery, Valmart Hardware, Valmart Bookshop, Valmart Pharmacy, Valmart Agro-vet, and Valley Coach bus terminuses and stages.

7. Rift Valley University of Technology and Rift Valley institution of Technology campuses.

8. Establishment of Rural Development Companies. 9. Residential estate and commercial buildings establishment within Specialized City

vicinity. 10. Consumer goods including petroleum products supply chain 11. Farm produces processing factories. 12. Teaching and University Hospital. 13. Transport companies including public transport service vehicles and lorry trucks. 14. Consumer goods manufacturing. 15. Applications of public-private partnership strategy - built operate transfer

arrangement with national government, to establishment electric train railway network between Nairobi city, Konza Technology city and Kajiado Industrial city triangle.

16. Development of 2030-2040 economic strategic plans.


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Market Competitiveness

1. The 19% shareholding by technology advanced strategic investors and the responsible actions of RVE&SB in RVDB, RVIB and in each of the RVIB managed companies will enable production of products and services of international standards, capable of penetrating international/export market with ease, assisted also by international market connections provided by the same.

2. With the 30% subsidy fund remitted by member county governments through allocations of 30% of their yearly allocated revenues to RVDF, all the goods and services provided by RVDA will attract 70% profit margin comparative to other corresponding goods and services provided by unsubsidized private ventures. Because of the comparative low prices/costs of the goods and services provided by companies under RVDA, attainment of major market share is assured. To ensure the provision is adhered to, pricing of all RVDB, RVIB and RVIB managed companies’ products and services shall be developed by RVIPI in conjunction with the concerned companies and approved by RVDA management committee after considering recommendations of RVE&SB.

3. The 30% subsidy shareholding in RVDB, RVIB and in RVIB managed companies especially Rift Valley Hotels Group, Rift Valley Clothing & Textiles Group, Rift Valley Leather Works Group, Rift Valley University Hospitals Ltd, and Valley Airlines Ltd, may be used to promote (i) artistry and flair (ii) create an ambience of polished sophistication around the products, and (iii) to employ the best people/personnel and equipment to deliver the customers’ experience.

4. RVDA management committee shall bi-yearly or as need be approve or otherwise review prices/fees of RVDB, RVIB and all the RVIB managed companies’ products and services as per RVIPI/RVBRI in conjunction with the concerned companies recommendations and after consideration of RVE&SB advice on the same.

5. All the companies/schools/bus services/ institutions/hospitals/market malls/supply chains/transport truck services/university campuses/hotels/towns and all other projects under RVDA will adopt a common naming/branding system that enables customers to easily identify the companies/projects/institutions under RVDA; these will facilitate and enhance joint marketing campaign.

6. Labeling all products and service documents/sites of companies under RVDA with RVDA trade mark/logo and adoption of common slogan e.g. “for/a subsidized product/service courtesy of RVDA” and/or other attractive slogans.

7. Naming of City/Resource Centres avenues/streets/public parks and structures using indigenous tourist attracting sites names, indigenous names, local heroes/heroine/artifacts names and specific logical numbering, and naming of buildings/site using owner company name and city/ resource centre/street name.

8. Monument to depict RVDA logo will be erected in entry gate of all its cities, resource centres, and company buildings and gates to their field sites, this will enhance branding. Further more, each RVDA’s entities or RVIB managed company’s sign boards shall bear RVDA’s logo on the upper left side corner. While office block(s) for each of the RVDA’s entities or RVIB managed company’s shall bear national flag, RVDA flag and the specific entity’s/company’s flag.


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9. The proposed “Koitalel arap Samoei Memorial Library (KSML)”, shall keep custody of histories of development of RVDA. Every one having or participating in RVDA economic strategic plan and actual RVDA establishment is herein requested to safely keep documentaries to that effect. Person who actively participated/participate in the establishment of RVDA will be considered heroes/heroine for their names to be used in the naming of avenues, streets and social places established out of the implementation of this economic strategic plan.

10. Taking into consideration that Rift Valley is compost of over 25% of Kenyan total population, its proximity to high population density western (Nyanza & Western province), central (Mt. Kenya) region of Kenya & Nairobi, and close proximity to other East African Counties also assures ready market for the subsidized goods and services.

11. To increase enrollment of students at Rift Valley University of Technology and Rift Valley Institute of Technology campuses, interested students will be given preferential ½ day each working day part-time employment opportunities in the RVDA companies.

12. Student mothers’ hostels and in house 24 hour child-care services within University and tertiary institutes will make it attractive to married students.

13. To ensure energy conservations and lowering of cost of doing business, each RVDA entity and RVIB managed company to install solar power system in its premises for use of solar power by lighting system and light gargets powering, livestock companies to make use of biogas power.

14. The proposed RVDA symbols:

Figure 8: The proposed RVDA logo


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Figure 12: The proposed RVDA flag

Whereby:

Black: African Rift Valley Community residents Yellow: The spirit of mutual respect, unity, partnership and cooperation as the seal for success White: The spirit of peace and love for one another Earth red: The land and mineral resources endowment in Rift Valley Community 14 blue stars: The 14 Counties of Rift Valley and they bright future Green: Agriculture as the backbone of the Rift Valley Community socio-economy The Impression of Athlete on action: The talent God bestowed on Rift Valley Community members and their industriousness.


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CHAPTER FIVE

5.0. RVDA INTER-RELATIONSHIPS

5.1. RVDA Inter-relationship with Member County Governments

For RVDA to exercise its authority efficiently and cost effectively, there is need for quality road infrastructure within each member county. The infrastructural support can be established by member county governments’ adopting of fiscal budget policy of 30% recurrent budget and wage bill, 30% intra-county infrastructural development and maintenance, 30% contribution to RVDF (RVDA) and 10% contingency costs.

5.1.1. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Application Service Provider (ASP)

Member county governments to outsource service, machinery, vehicles and other utilities that can be shared from the joint RVDA’s companies/agencies, this will lead to reduction of county government’s recurrent budget and wage bills due to avoidance of replication of service providers positions, elimination of machinery & vehicles acquisition bills by different counties governments and improvement in productivity due to private sector profit returns motivations, at the same time block corruption avenues. In this case county government will be lean and efficient entities make up of few policy makers (county executives) and administrators and minimal day to day workers. The policy makers will be served with policy/legislative bills recommendations by RVIPI/RVBRI, while the administrators will undertake their day to day constitutional functions through outsourcing of business processes & services and leasing of implements for example: outsourcing for road construction service, accountancy service, cleaning service, public health services, medical services, transportation service, veterinary service, agricultural extension service, tourism promotion services, and leasing of machinery, vehicles, personnel and other sharable utilities/implements from RVDA’s companies. The administrator will be linked to the RVDA’s companies via Outsourcing Liaison Unit under RVIB. This arrangement will enable various member county governments to share personnel, vehicles and machinery and other sharable utilities thus reducing service provision costs (Table 12).


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Table 12: Proposed Model for RVDA Inter-relationship with Member County Governments


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5.2. RVDA Cooperation with other Regional Development Authorities 1. Following the proposal for allocation to County government of 45% of Kenyan

annual revenues to enable use of 15% of the 45% to cater for devolved recurrent expenditure and the remaining 30% to cater for national developments expenditure spearheaded by County governments - to ensure equity in national resource allocations & economic developments. It is proposed that County governments sharing a common socio-economic potential to form joint regional development authorities and committees to effect the developmental agenda.

2. It is further proposed for re-orientation of Kenyan Vision 2030 milestones for delivery by the joint regional development authorities in behalf of member County governments, so that Vision 2030 will be about “doing what you can – where you are – with what you have” (adopted from Nike and Roosevelt – former president of USA).

3. Each regional development authority’s industrial city(ies) hosting export-oriented production/manufacturing/service companies of over total worth of KES 200 billion to be regarded as Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for the purposes of benefit from national government tax breaks.

4. Formation of the following regional development authorities in tandem with the proposed RVDA policy framework herein: a. Western Kenya Development Authority (WKDA): To spearhead national

developmental agenda in Bungoma, Kakamega, Vihiga and Busia Counties. b. Nyanza Development Authority (NDA): To spearhead national developmental

agenda in Siaya, Kisumu, Homa Bay and Migori Counties. c. Gusii Development Authority (GDA): To spearhead national developmental

agenda in Kisii and Nyamira Counties. d. North Eastern Development Authority (NEDA): To spearhead national

developmental agenda in Moyale, Isiolo, Ijara, Mandera and Garisa Counties. e. Mount Kenya Development Authorities (MKDA): To spearhead national

developmental agenda in Meru, Tharaka-Nithi, Embu, Nyeri, Muranga, Kiambu and Nyandarua Counties.

f. Lower Eastern Development Authority (LEDA): To spearhead national developmental agenda in Machakos, Kitui and Makueni Counties.

g. Pwani Development Authority (PDA): To spearhead national developmental agenda in Lamu, Kilifi, Tana River, Mombasa and Taita Taveta Counties.

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5.2.1. RVDA-LEDA-PDA Special Cooperation 1. RVDA Vision 2030 mandate includes as indicated in its objectives above. 2. Lower Eastern Development Authority (LEDA) Vision 2030 mandate to include:

a. To mine coal and generate electricity using Kitui County coal deposits; b. To mine iron ore, establish and operate steel mills; c. To mine cement raw materials, establish and operate cement manufacturing

plants; d. To establish tourist facilities and a resort city adjacent to Kajiado Resort City

(KRC) to be named Konza Resort City (KRC); e. To develop, operate and maintain agricultural irrigation infrastructure in rural

area of the three member Counties and corresponding agro-processing plants; f. To use the same policies as herein proposed to mobilize and invest between

KES 300 billion and 0.9 trillion by the year 2030. 3. North Eastern Development Authority (NEDA) Vision 2030 mandate to include:

a. To develop, operate and maintain agricultural irrigation infrastructure and associated agro-processing plants in rural areas of the five member counties; using Trans-boundary Ogaden-Juba aquifer and Merti aquifer (large volume high-speed flowing underground water) and Tana River;

b. To establish and manage large scale commercial ranches and associated beef processing plants.

c. To develop, operate and maintain tourism oriented infrastructure and Resort Cities in North eastern Kenya especially in Isiolo and Garisa.

d. To use the same policies as herein proposed to mobilize and invest between KES 500 billion and 1.5 trillion by the year 2030.

4. Pwani Development Authority (PDA) Vision 2030 mandate to include: a. To develop, operate and maintain tourism oriented hotels, conferences centres

and Resort Cities along Kenyan Coast; b. To develop, operate and maintain agricultural irrigation infrastructure in rural

area of the six member Counties and corresponding agro-processing factories; c. To develop, operate and maintain efficient seaports and oil refineries along

Kenyan coast especially at Mombasa and Lamu shores. d. To use the same policies as herein proposed to mobilize and invest between

KES 600 billion and 1.8 trillion by the year 2030. 5. To enable attainment of synergies and spirit/environment of cooperation in day to

day business operations: a. RVDA and LEDA will consider having the same strategic investor in their

companies operating in the same field based in Kajiado Resort City and Konza Resort City, jointly using Valley Railway Services Ltd services and/or having the same service provider i.e. water & sanitation, Internet service info-structure, electricity supply e.t.c.

b. RVDA and PDA will consider having the same strategic investor in their tourism and hospitality companies, and collaboration in the use of the seaport and oil refinery.


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CHAPTER SIX

6.0. The Proposed “Samaritans’ Initiative for Change Network (SICNET)”

Table 13: Talents Fund Land and Capital Allocations

Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Park Hectares Capital (KES, Billion)

Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Mentorship Centre, Nandi Hills 25 1 Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Girls' High School, Nandi Hills 25 0.1 Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Boys' High School, Nandi Hills 25 0.1 Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Academy, Nandi Hills 20 0.1 Koitalel arap Somoei Sports Complex 50 5.8 Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Library 5 0.5 Koitalel arap Somoei Cultural Resort 50 2 Sub-total 200 9.6 Iten Sports Centre Iten Sports-Girls' High School, Iten 25 0.1 Iten Sports-Boys' High School, Iten 25 0.1 Iten Sports Academy, Iten 20 0.1 Iten Athletics Camp 25 0.05 Timboroa Athletics Camp (Satellite camp) 25 0.05 Sub-total 120 0.4 Total 320 10

1. The organization’s programs will be funded by RVDA’s public-private partnership

companies through each company’s contributions of 2.5% of her annual net profit to SICNET Fund - under SICNET managed directly by RVDA management committee.

2. SICNET Secretary will annually /or when need be call for grant proposals from non-profit organizations and companies under RVDA and subsequently forward to RVIPI/RVBRI to review the proposals and recommend to the RVDA management committee to fund qualified proposals with or without modifications using the different categories of SICNET Fund. RVDA management committee shall reserve authority to allocate SICNET Fund when need be.

3. SICNET Fund will comprise the following categories of funds, among others: a. Essential commodities subsidy Fund b. Talents Sponsorship Fund c. Environmental Conservation Fund d. Religious Missions Support Fund e. Humanitarian Relief Fund f. Business Restoration Fund g. Essential Infrastructure Support Fund


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h. Anti-Drug Abuse Fund i. Behaviour Change Advocacy Fund j. Education Scholarship Fund k. Medical Relief Fund l. Youth Fund m. Addicts Rehabilitation Fund n. Civil Education Fund o. Legal Aid Fund

4. Essential Commodity Subsidy Fund is to be used to fund waiver of value added tax on essential commodities/consumer goods offered by Valmart Group that include maize flour, wheat flour, bread, milk, sugar, tea leaves and cooking oil.

5. Environmental Conservation Fund shall comprise 50% of annual SICNET Fund for mitigating effects of climate change and environmental restoration and conservation following the proposed massive man-made activities, and fund (in collaboration with RVIPI) research and development of environmental conservations that include research for identification and development of nutritious local drought tolerant browse/foliage for mass propagation and planting in arid & semi-Arid zones.

6. Environmental Conservation Fund: To be used for environment conservation & public health issues, and disaster management in conjunction with Rift Valley Metropolitan Councils (RVMC) Group and Rift Valley Security Service (RVSS) Group

7. Talents Sponsorship Fund and the Business Restoration Fund shall fund the development and equipping of Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Park that includes:- a. Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Mentorship Centre, Nandi Hills b. Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Girls' High School, Nandi Hills c. Koitalel arap Somoei Talented-Boys' High School, Nandi Hills d. Koitalel arap Somoei Talents Academy, Nandi Hills e. Koitalel arap Somoei Sports Complex f. Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Library (For showcasing cultural artifacts and

literature, to be owned and operated by Koitalel arap Somoei Cultural Resort) g. 51% partial sponsorship for development of Koitalel arap Somoei Cultural

Resort – the shares to be equitably transferred to members of Talai clan as reparations for their forefathers’ persecution during colonial resistance.

8. Talents Sponsorship Fund shall fund the development and equipping of talent/sports and recreational facilities that includes:- a. [City/Town/County R.C. site name] Sports Complex b. [City/Town/Resource Centre site name] Sports Ground c. [City/Town/Resource Centre site name] Social Hall d. Iten Sports-Girls' High School, Iten e. Iten Sports-Boys' High School, Iten f. Iten Sports Academy, Iten g. Iten Athletics Camp h. Timboroa Athletics Camp

9. SICNET Fund management shall seek adequate loan from RVDB to enable the Fund to sponsor timely development of Koitalel arap Somoei Memorial Park, talent/sports and recreational facilities


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10. Talents Sponsorship Fund shall offer full sponsorship to all the talent trainees. 11. Youth Fund shall be used to facilitate attachment placement for youth that include

stipend/upkeep allowances i.e. facilitate 6 month internship placement of school leavers and college graduates with RVDA managed companies. At the same time facilitate training of the interns on lifeskills, enterprenoural skills, good morals, responsible behaviours/citizentry and such like skills. These will promote social justice & earning upkeep allowances, professional vision/dream development and prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission/infection. Also to be used to facilitate early adulthood marriage through advocacy and counseling services i.e. age 22-24 for ladies and age 25-27 for men. This will prevent fornication and other behaviour responsible for HIV/AIDS transmission/infection. Provide develop and disseminate booklets on adolescent responsible behaviours, avoiding wrong courtship relations, fulfilling family relations, HIV/AIDS managements and support services, career choice and mentorship, youth dream success modeling & implementation.

12. Essential Infrastructure Support Fund: To be used to award restricted development grants to National and/or County government(s) for infrastructural developments crucial to RVDA’s developmental plans, priority development project to be awarded restricted development grants is 50-70 km standard highway linking Samburu Town with Kula Mawe town – Isiolo County and for expansion of road linking Samburu Town and Isiolo International Airport into 6 line superhighway, annually renewable conditional grant to Bungoma county for her to consequently allocate to RVDA for Mt. Elgon constituency to continuously enjoy full membership status to RVDA, SICNET will source for long term loan using the renewable grant allocation to enable subsequent allocation to RVDA of enough subscriptions for Mt. Elgon constituency membership.

13. Business Restoration Fund: To be used to underwrite loss to RVDA entities and RVIB managed companies occasioned by climatic calamity, political conflicts & upheavals, acts of terrorism, economic crimes, currency exchange rate fluctuations and other causes that insurance companies do no insure.

14. Legal Aid Fund: To be used to provide legal service support in safeguarding and promotion of human rights as indicated in the constitutional chapter on bill of rights.

15. Behaviour Change Advocacy Fund: To be used for conflict prevention and resolution, and promotion of social-cohesion through advocacy for mutual respect and recognitions of cultural diversity via annual organization of cultural festivals, public entertainment concerts, and operation of public access libraries, video shows and cinemas conveying social-cohesion and integration promoting messages.

16. Anti-Drug Abuse Fund: To be used to control drug abuse and pornography. 17. Humanitarian Relief Fund: To be used to foster trans-communal and international

friendship through humanitarian relief services that include purchase and donation of firefighting helicopter engine (worth over KES 2 billion) and other fire fighting engines to be donated to Valley Fire-brigade Service Ltd to be stationed at Nakuru Commercial City, all the services offered by the firefighting helicopter engine to be sponsored by the fund. The helicopter will be hired to Agricultural development companies for crop spraying for the purpose of raising finances to the donor fund. Humanitarian Relief Fund shall offer monthly up keep allowances for destitute


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people, people with disability(ies) and senior members/elderly of the community without able care giver(s).

18. Medical Relief Fund: Will be used to acquire ambulance helicopter to be donated to Rift Valley University Hospital, to be stationed in Nakuru Commercial City, all the services of the ambulance are to be sponsored by the fund. The helicopter will be hired to RVDA companies for commuter transport during their day-to-day functions; the funds raised shall be paid to the donor fund.

19. Education Scholarship Fund: It shall comprise 10% of the SICNET Fund. To be used to offer full/partial scholarship support to students with disabilities, orphan students, and students from poor families.

20. Religious Missions Support Fund: To be used for promotion of spiritual wellbeing of the residents, caring for less fortunate persons, destitute, senior members of the community, orphans and other disparate & deserving cases;


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CHAPTER SEVEN

7.0. THE ECONOMIC STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE

7.1. Conceptualization of Economic Strategic Plan

The development scheme concepts based on Public-Private Partnership joint ventures managed by the cooperating County governments’ joint Authority has already been conceptualized by Rift Valley Professionals Forum and Rift Valley Youth Forum, there is still room for continuous brainstorming and improvement.

7.2. Rift Valley Professionals and Youth Forums’ Concept Note

The RVDA concept note here-is, has been developed through an inclusive and widely consultative brainstorming process by the forums and associated professionals and interest groups.

7.3. Arousal of Public Opinion

A coordinated public discussion on the socio-economic development scheme will be facilitated be FM media houses through invited guests, propping questions and calls invitations, requesting of residents to download the full economic strategic plan and participate in the reviews, and during 2012 campaign meetings. In addition, the full economic strategic plan will be posted on forum’s web page and invitation of electronic inputs and comments through a discussion blogs in the web page and uploading/submitting via e-mail of memoranda.

7.4. Development of Detailed Economic strategic plan

The forums will pay attention to the public discussion and memoranda submissions, and incorporate the comments and opinion.

7.5. Implementing leadership election campaign strategy

The following campaign strategy will be employed in the 2012 general elections to ensure leaders willing and capable to implement this sacred economic strategic plan are elected:-

1. Preferred candidates for elections should have leadership experiences in respect to truck records depicting faithful support for and promotion of RVC socio-economic development and defense of community’s economic interests rather than fierce pursued of individualistic economic prosperity in a manner that can lead to socio-economic meltdown and economic persecution of community members.

2. County Assembly Member and Governor preferred candidate for each Ward/County is to be person willing to assist in spearheading door-to-door campaigns, educating residents/voters on provisions of the economic strategic plan and importance and mutual benefits offered by RVDA once incorporated, and should be a person who is


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able to mobilize enough peers’ campaign team to assist in the same at Ward/County level. They should be persons who understand the pain of acquiring education and yet being unemployed and being trapped in integrated rural/urban slums’ poverty and means to effectively remove the poverty trap. They should have strong passion to push for the faithful and total implementation of the economic strategic plan with the view of generating jobs and investment opportunities for his/her peers, the community and the entire East Africa Community.

3. Presidential candidates will be selected based on the following: willingness to accent to/sign into legislations bills drafted to implement the provisions of this economic strategic plan, commitment to have his/her national government guarantee KES 30-100 billion loans sourced by each member county government, and his/her political party adoption of this economic strategic plan has part of his/her party’s manifesto.

4. The preferred presidential candidate should clearly manifest support for re-orientation of Kenyan Vision 2030 to enable its delivery by joint regional development authorities as herein proposed or otherwise with relevant incremental modifications.

5. In general, the preferred candidates will be identified via Youth and professionals forums facilitated consultative meetings involving interrogation, investigation and interviewing of election positions candidates, to be held in an open manner (i.e. held in open field with invited residents/voters and journalists) at different levels i.e. consultative meetings to be held at constituency level to identify County Assembly Member candidates, at county level to nominate 1 MP candidate per constituency, while at Rift Valley Community level meetings will nominate a Governor, Senator and Woman Representative candidate (MP) per County as preferred candidates, a common political party and presidential candidate worthy support is also agreed upon at this level. All the preferred candidates including preferred presidential candidate will have to sign a binding memorandum of understanding (MoU)/performance contract with the Youth and professionals forums (in behalf of residence/voters) to commit themselves to performing their mandate that relate to the implementation of the strategic plan, the MoU/performance contract will be useful in the recall of those who will not honour their commitments or in calls for dissolution of their County government for governor(s) and his/her/their deputy(ies). The preferential candidates and their political party particulars are to appear in the 1 page of the 5 page campaign document. The campaign document including detailed C.V. of each preferred candidate - accompanied by reasons as to why they were preferred, will be posted on web pages of the entire registered Forums in Rift Valley i.e. [County name] Youth Forum & [County name] Professionals Forum.

6. County Assembly Member candidates and their peer campaign team to undertake a door to door campaign for adoption of the RVDA economic strategic plan by their Ward’s residents/voters, for their own election and for election of other nominated candidates. To support this campaign, each household will be given a 5 page campaign document that includes 1 page RVDA executive summary, 1 page The Investment/Development Concept Map, 1 page RVDA – County governments interrelationship model, 1 page conclusion as is in this economic strategic plan, and 1 page document containing the passport photographs & political party symbols of preferred candidates for County Assembly Member position in the Ward and for other elective positions up to for presidency preferred candidate.


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7. The preferred Governorship candidates from across the Rift Valley Community will nominate one among themselves to be their campaign spokesperson and leader.

Approval of the Final Detailed Economic strategic plan and Requisite Bills

Once the forums completes developing the detailed investment economic strategic plan, the economic strategic plan will be submitted to the County governments within Rift Valley Community once formed which will approve and subsequently enact requisite legislations. It is envisioned to happen within 3 months of the formation of the County governments, for inclusion in 2013/2014 member County governments’ budget.

7.7. Community Awareness/Mobilization Campaign

Once the investment scheme economic strategic plan is approved, community awareness and mobilization campaigns will be rolled out by the political leadership lead by respective member Counties’ governors.

7.8. Launching of RVDA

On completion of the awareness campaign, the Development Authority will be formally set-up, launched and investment projects will rollout according to the priority indicated on investment priority project (sub-chapter 4:11), this will happen on 1st July, 2013.

7.9. Assimilation to the Community

Through continuous community awareness and mobilization campaigns, the investment scheme will become part and parcel of the Rift Valley Community and beyond.

7.10. RVDA entities Incorporation and Commissioning

1. Once member County governments have sourced for the loans and handed over their contributions to the Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF), the RVDA management committee shall facilitate incorporation and commissioning of the RVDA’s public-private partnership entities (RVDB and RVIB) and the fully public entities that include Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB). Shareholding of RVDB and RVIB will be worked out and funds equivalent to 30% shareholding in each of them will be allocated from the RVDF.

2. The management committee shall identify a suitable foreign state corporation(s) or foreign private company(ies) to invest 19% equity in RVDB and RVIB (respectively), subsequently investor residents will be invited to acquire the remaining 51% shareholding in each of the entity via direct equity investments (direct cash transfer targeting RVC residents who are well endowed with finances and those who will have sold lots of hectares of land to RVILB, else, able to buy shares worth hundreds of millions-KES or billion-KES).


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7.11. Supportive Industrial Incorporation

1. The following industries/companies will be incorporated immediately after land demarcation; they will be useful in construction and servicing of the cities/resource centres and other RVDA projects.

2. These includes- a. Electricity generation and supply company; b. Water and sanitation companies; c. Petroleum products supply company; d. Construction materials manufacturing and supply company; e. Farm and agro-processing machinery manufacturing company; f. Civil and structural construction company; g. Technical and University Institutions and other supportive companies.

7.12. Investment Land Acquisition, Demarcation and Servicing

The investment land parcels are to be acquired immediately upon establishment of RVDA by Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) using Rift Valley Development Fund (RVDF). With the assistance of expert city/town/resource centre planners, the investment lands will be subdivided into appropriate sizes depending on land use plans, appropriately serviced and subsequently allocated and leased to respective companies. Land parcels allocated to companies which will not be established within five years or land set aside as a reserve for future expansions will immediately be leased out for appropriate duration to host County’s Agricultural development subsidiary company(ies) for immediate use.

7.13. RVIB managed companies Incorporation

1. On incorporation of RVIB managed companies, shareholding in each of the company groups and their subsidiary companies will be worked out and funds equivalent to 30% shareholding in each of them will be allocated from the RVDF.

2. The management committee shall identify a suitable foreign state corporation or foreign private company to invest 19% equity in each of the company, subsequently, RVDB and RVIB will automatically underwrite 45.9% and 5.1% respectively of the 51% shareholding set aside for investor residents in each of the RVIB managed companies. Thus, all the RVIB managed companies will be fully financed on incorporation.

3. Once companies are incorporated and commissioned, investor residents will be invited to redeem their 51% shareholding in each of the companies via direct equity payment to RVIB for redemption of 5.1% underwritten by RVIB and via automatic reception of loan in terms of the formulae; for 1 share redeemed from RVIB one automatically receives loans worth 9 shares held by RVDB in the respective company, this formulae allows one to receive shares in loan of up to a maximum of shares worth 7.56 millions from RVDB. The loans are to be serviced after 3 years grace period and for a period no exiting 10 years; investor dividends obtained out of the shareholding will be automatically used to service the loans.


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7.14. Continues Monitoring and Evaluation

The independent and fully public arm of the RVDA, RVS&EB will continuously monitor and evaluate all the RVCB projects. The youth and residents in general are to be vigilant to ensure full and faithful step-by-step implementation of the economic strategic plan in both letter and spirit. Table 14: Implementation Time Frame Time period

Activity Aug-Dec, 2010

Jan-Sept, 2011

September, 2011 - June, 2013

July 1, 2013 - Forever

Conceptualization of the economic strategic plan.

Writing up of the. Arousal and Capturing of Public Opinion. Development of Detailed Economic strategic plan and Requisite Bills.

Approval of the Final Detailed Economic strategic plan and Requisite Bills.

Community Awareness/Mobilization Campaign.

Official launching of Rift Valley Development Authority (RVDA).

July 1st, 2013

Assimilation to the Community. Continues Monitoring and Evaluation.


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CHAPTER EIGTH

8.0. CONCLUSION

In conclusion, two years upon establishment of RVDA (1st July, 2015), virtually all adult Rift Valley Community residents will have acquired millionaire status via adequate employment & investment opportunities together with the automatic non-guarantee requiring investment shares loan worth 90% of cash purchased shares, the shares are to be automatically serviced by one’s dividends for a period of not more than 10 years. The most poor and illiterate resident for example, will be millionaire by obtaining employment as manual security service provider/agricultural/construction worker earning KES 10,000 per month, else if he/she saves KES 5,000 per month for 2 years, one will have KES 120,000. Therefore, once he/she invest the KES 120,000 in RVIB managed company(ies) he/she will receive shares in loan worth KES 1,080,000 resulting in his/her total shares being worth KES 1,200,000 and he/she will be a millionaire. For this reason, pastoralists are called upon to fatten their beef cattle and sell them off when they are at their best weight and not to wait until drought kills them (or until market is over supplied during investment time in the year 2013/2014), and save the money to facilitate their investment in the year 2013/2014. Crop farmers are also advised to utilizes all their unused land at the same time use required crop husbandry practices to maximize their income in preparation for the investment (they can partner with those who have capital to finance enhanced farming). While the employed residents, especially disciplined forces and TSC employed teachers are being called upon to clear their bending loans (if any) in order for them to be in a position to borrow maximum loan using their employment salary as security else maximizing their investment in RVIB managed companies. In general, Rift Valley Community indigenous peoples are requested to mobilize resources and form land buying companies that will facilitate Rift Valley Investment Land Board (RVILB) in land purchases, RVILB will purchase its investment land at preferred sites directly from indigenous people only (indirectly in the other cases - through indigenous people), to enable extinguishment of their aboriginal title on the land, else avoiding the indigenous peoples or their descent from claims on RVILB acquired investment land using the constitutional provision on ancestral lands or historical or present land injustices (refer to provisions on investment land acquisition). At the end of the first 10 year investment/development period (the year 2023 or otherwise 2030), Rift Valley Community will enjoy equal infrastructural development and standard of living as citizens of the United States of America.


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ANNEX

Annex 1: RIFT VALLEY INVESTMENT GROUP (RVIG): A LAND BUYING AND SELLING FACILITATING COMPANY

1) To precede the establishment of the proposed “RIFT VALLEY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (RVDA).

2) Proposal to immediately incorporate a land buying and selling facilitating group/company, which may be named Rift Valley Investment Group (RVIG), to facilitate incorporation and operation of several independent but cooperating land buying and selling companies, and individual land buying and selling persons.

3) RVIG is to identify land parcels on sell and mobilize interested persons and facilitate them to buy the land individually or through formation of land buying groups/companies, and to mobilize funds through personal means and through securing of group loans.

4) Due to implications of the provisions of the new constitution on the land chapter, a lot of large tracts of land will be available for sell in the year 2011/2012. However by the year 2013, to get affordable large track of land to buy will be difficult because current large tracts will have been subdivided and sold out and whether the that day owners will be willing to sell to RVDA is uncertain.

5) Thus, forming land buying facilitating Group/company to facilitate land buying and land consolidating by persons who are willing to eventually sell the land to RVDA (Rift Valley Investment Lands Board - RVILB) for establishment of specialized cities and modern towns.

6) The parliament will be requested to give 5 years grace period before taking effect of the provisions on maximum private land holding, to allow the RVIG facilitated land buying individuals/groups/companies to dispose off the land to the RVDA’s Rift Valley Investment Land Board (RVILB) which will be a fully Public institution.

7) RVDA will require the following land acreage at the specified investment site for development of specialized cities and modern towns:-

a. Nakuru Commercial City: 150,000 hectares (Head Quarters City, at Nakuru town outskirts-to-Naivasha town outskirts along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway with emphasis on Rift aquifers bases);

b. Eldoret Industrial City: 75,000 hectares [City, at Eldoret town outskirts 10km width (20km radius from the town’s CBD, but not including 10km radius CBD area) clockwise circumferential touching Turbo and Eldoret International Airport];

c. Kajiado Resort City: 75,000 hectares (City, Kitengela-Konza-Kajiado Town outskirts Triagle)

d. Kaplong Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Kaplong Junction and outskirts);

e. Nanyuki Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Nanyuki CBD and outskirts); f. Samburu Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Archer’s Post CBD and

outskirts); g. Kitale Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Kitale town CBD and outskirts);


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h. Lodwar Town: 2,000 hectares (Modern Town, at Lodwar town CBD and outskirts);

8) Approximate total of the land required to be purchased for the purposes of development of specialized cities and modern towns is 310,000 hectares,

a. Taking the average current price of 1 hectare to be KES 1 million b. Then, the required purchasing funds will be 310,000 x KES 1 million = KES

310 billion, c. Given that the land buying individuals/groups/companies may purchase the land

using 25% equity and 75% debt, then the amount of fund to be mobilized directly from private investors is only KES 77.5 billion which is possible (considering that most of the targeted lands are held by persons willing to preserve it until they directly sell to RVILB). And the loans to be secured from the bank(s) will be KES 232.5 billion; the purchased land will serve as the security to the loan.

d. A commercial bank is to be identified and contracted to source for KES 232.5 billion developmental loan from international lending institutions and subsequently loan the money to land buying groups/companies/individuals (facilitated by RVIG) at negotiated interest rates.

e. On setting up of RVDA, it will establish the proposed Rift Valley Investment Lands Board (RVILB) that will purchase the land initially purchased by the land buying individuals/groups/companies at double the purchasing price; hence, it will buy the land at KES 2 million per hectare and a total of KES 620 billion for the 310,000 hectares.

f. Subsequently, RVILB will plan (city/modern town planning) and service the investment land and lease out to the allotted RVDA public-private partnership companies. After leasing out, it will pay the land suppliers land sell bonuses equivalent to 50% of the profit (it will have made), which translates to another KES 3 million per hectare. Hence, each hectare will have been sold to RVILB for a total of KES 5 million, this mean all the land sellers will actually obtain KES 1.55 trillion at the end of the land sell deal i.e. leading to attainment of more than 500% profit by the land buying individuals/groups/companies and subsequently clearing of bank loan within a span of approximately 2 years. If the land buying and selling individuals/groups/companies subsequently buy shares in RVDA’s public-private partnership companies, RVDA will instantly obtain KES 1.25 trillion (KES 1.55 trillion – 232.5 billion loan & the bank’s interest) starting capital in cash and at the same time have the investment land.

g. Therefore, it is possible to mobilize all the required capital in the year 2013/2014, and at the same time establish all the envisaged public-private partnership companies within that year.


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