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Land prices rise again as excavators roar in Konza – but will it last?

The dredging of the soil and hum of activity is, after all, happening on an isolated 5,000-acre property off the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway.PHOTO: COURTESY

The sound of an excavator breaking through the black cotton soils of Konza plains in Makueni County might escape the attention of many.

The dredging of the soil and hum of activity is, after all, happening on an isolated 5,000-acre property off the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway.

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