The Wildlife Principal Secretary, Silvia Museiya, has revealed that the government is set to knock down some factories erected within the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) along Mombasa Road to pave the way for a wildlife migratory corridor.
In a press briefing on Tuesday, April 30, the PS said that the migratory corridor is expected to connect the Nairobi National Park and the Kapiti plains, through the EPZ and the East Africa Portland Cement land. "We have already marked out the entire corridor and gone through some government land in EPZ A and EPZ B, all the way to some private landowners with whom we have already had an engagement," she stated.
The PS clarified that the government will not compensate those affected since the majority of the land belongs to the state and will instead provide the necessary assistance to help the factories relocate to another EPZ zone.
Rhinos at the Nairobi National Park.
