By Sandra Blessing
Kisumu Governor Prof Peter Anyang Nyong’o will tomorrow hold a round table meeting with stakeholders to address land emerging issues and investments opportunities.
Key to the areas to be addressed include the contentious double or triple land allocation double triple allocations, land brokerage and swindlers and how to protect land owners.
Similarly, the Governor will address land rate issues and possibly offer waivers to enable defaulters to pay rates.
Also, the Governor is expected to address land investment opportunities in the Lake City
“We hope tomorrow’s meeting will be a milestone in correcting emerging and recurring land ownership and allocation issues and righting the wrongs. We want to create conducive investment opportunities for investors,” City Manager Abala Wanga said.
Wanga said the round table meeting offers all the stakeholders to raise and have their concerns addressed by the governor and this is expected to be productive engagement.
He said the round table meeting was in a bid to unlock the economic potential of Kisumu City,.
“The roundtable discussion scheduled for 14th May 2025, we target land owners in the city mainly Manyatta B, Milimani, South West Kisumu, Nyalenda A, Nyalenda B Migosi, Railways, Shauri Moyo/ Kaloleni, Kajulu, Kondele, Central Kisumu, Kolwa Central, Kolwa East, Kisumu North and all the stakeholders,” he said.
The deliberations will be on the land use optimization and the event will be held at Tom Mboya Labor College.
The Roundtable discussion seeks to engage land owners , investors , government agencies and built environment stakeholders on the strategic use of land to unlock economic potential of rapidly growing Kisumu city.
The forum will focus on strategies to develop idle and underutilized land in line with the approved Kisumu city local physical and land use development plan.
Strengthening compliance with building laws and zoning regulations to enhance orderly development
Addressing outstanding land rate arrears through flexible and innovative payment arrangements.
Exploring public-private partnerships to drive sustainable investments in infrastructure and real estate.
The City is owed billions of shillings in rate arrears by various government agencies, private investors and the public.
