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Sh5bn industrial parks loss shame for counties

What you need to know:

  • Boosting rural economic growth can stem the movement to the urban centres.
  • Governors have accused the national government of bungling the project.

The establishment of industrial parks in the counties is a key dream that is being squandered. This is a project President William Ruto’s administration had touted as a solution to the rampant youth unemployment and a means to curb the rise in the rural-urban migration that lands many in squalor in the slums.

Boosting rural economic growth can stem the movement to the urban centres, where the increasing numbers undermine their ability to provide the most basic services.