Govt to spend Kshs.4 Billion to Relocate a College Within Nairobi

The college will be relocated at a cost of Ksh4 billion to the land owned by the University of Nairobi and acquired along Ngong Road.

Margaret Mwakima, the Principal Secretary for the State Department of Vocational and Technical Training, disclosed in a prior appearance before parliament that the government had approved the college's transfer after negotiations began in 2017.

“We have negotiated on a win-win basis. The need for land for the diplomatic enclave is more than what we had prepared to provide," Mwakima stated.

“If we were to release the land, the only option was for us to get the structures along Ngong road,” she added.

The PS explained that because the college was located in a diplomatic zone, it posed a security concern to the UN buildings.

The UN offices in Gigiri, which were founded in 1996, serve as the global body's headquarters in Africa.

“Signatories to the Vienna Convention, to which Kenya is a party is required to identify an area with proper security, good infrastructure, proper social setup among others to house diplomatic missions,” she remarked.

In 2017, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi, who was also the Education Cabinet Secretary at the time, appointed a team to monitor the college's relocation negotiations.

The Commission on Administrative Justice, on the other hand, was opposed to the move, claiming that the government had not followed due process in relocating KTTC to the University of Nairobi's Kenya Science campus along Ngong Road.