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Undeveloped Nairobi plots to attract double rates

Nairobi City County Governor Evans Kidero addressing the press at his office on 2/6/15- [photo by BEVERLYNE MUSILI]

Property owners in Nairobi who have not developed their plots will now pay double the rates to the county government.

This after the High Court upheld the decision by Governor Evans Kidero’s government to peg rates at 34 per cent of the unimproved site value of land, up from 17 per cent that property owners have been paying.

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