County moves to protect land around new industrial park

Visitors in the newly opened Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Mai Mahiu Naivasha which has seen the volume of cargo collected from the facility rise from 20 to 45 percent in the last three months. [Antony Gitonga]

Nakuru County has gazetted a special economic zone around the Mai Mahiu Industrial Park and the recently opened Inland Container Depot.

The move is meant to stop mushrooming of informal settlements and unplanned structures around the multi-billion-shilling project.