Carole Kariuki, KEPSA CEO (Left), with Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance during a meeting where the private sector outlined eight priority areas in addressing challenges facing the county including sustainable urban mobility and transport, an integrated urban land use plan, water provision, wastewater and solid waste management and a robust security and disaster risk management agenda for the city.
Carole Kariuki, KEPSA CEO (Left), with Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance during a meeting where the private sector outlined eight priority areas in addressing challenges facing the county including sustainable urban mobility and transport, an integrated urban land use plan, water provision, wastewater and solid waste management and a robust security and disaster risk management agenda for the city.

KEPSA met up with Kenya Kwanza Alliance Governor Aspirant Johnson Sakaja

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The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) today presented the Private Sector Economic Manifesto for Nairobi County to the Kenya Kwanza Alliance candidate for Governor, Hon. Johnson Sakaja.

The Manifesto seeks to make Nairobi a livable city and emphasizes eight thematic areas where the private sector wants to see a change in how the capital city is governed including e-government compliance and
enforcement, healthcare, competitiveness, and job creation as well as culture and social inclusion.

According to Carole Kariuki, KEPSA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), priority interventions include a working and sustainable urban mobility and transport system, an integrated urban land use plan, water, wastewater, and solid waste management, including robust security and disaster risk management agenda for the city.

"To make Nairobi a liveable city, requires among other interventions, an integrated planning approach to the provision of public goods such as infrastructure and services based on economic competitiveness, environmentally sustainable growth, social and financial inclusion as well as resilience and safety,” Carole Kariuki, KEPSA CEO, speaking on Tuesday 21, June during a meeting with Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
“To make Nairobi a liveable city, requires among other interventions, an integrated planning approach to the provision of public goods such as infrastructure and services based on economic competitiveness, environmentally sustainable growth, social and financial inclusion as well as resilience and safety,” Carole Kariuki, KEPSA CEO, speaking on Tuesday 21, June during a meeting with Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance.

“The vision of the private sector economic manifesto is to make Nairobi a livable city, and which requires among other interventions, an integrated planning approach to the provision of public goods such as
infrastructure and services based on economic competitiveness, environmentally sustainable growth, social and financial inclusion as well as resilience and safety,” she said.

In the meeting, – part of ongoing engagements between KEPSA and the Presidential and Gubernatorial candidates to incorporate private-sector economic agenda into their manifestos – KEPSA tasked the
outgoing Nairobi Senator to make Nairobi a competitive, green, inclusive, resilient, and safe city to live in, work, and do business, if he is elected on August 9, 2022.

In making the city great for business, work, and leisure, KEPSA now wants the Nairobi County government to embrace technology and innovative solutions to usher in a world-class mobility and transport system
with proper management of traffic and congestion in the city.

“There is need to structure Nairobi properly because we want a city that is business-friendly. We will use the Urban Areas and Cities Act to restructure affairs of the county to usher in order and accountability and use technology to avoid revenue leakages,” Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance during a meeting with KEPSA.
“There is need to structure Nairobi properly because we want a city that is business-friendly. We will use the Urban Areas and Cities Act to restructure affairs of the county to usher in order and accountability and use technology to avoid revenue leakages,” Hon. Johnson Sakaja the Nairobi Governor aspirant for the Kenya Kwanza Alliance during a meeting with KEPSA.

“It is quite sad that we don’t have a working public transport system while our neighboring cities like Dar es Sa·laam, Kigali, and Addis Ababa have built Bus Rapid Transit systems. We need to ensure a working
BRT where all other matatus and buses feed into various locations to bring order into the city and make it attractive for investors and safe to do business in, walk and promote tourism within the city,” explained
Kariuki.

For a water-scarce city, Kariuki urged the incoming county government to develop an integrated system to manage water supply and particularly have a plan to increase water sufficiency, harvesting, and recycling and adopt smart waste management systems for Nairobi saying that only 45 percent of the 2,400 tons of daily solid waste in the city was being recycled.

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