Kenyatta International Conference Centre Chief Executive Officer Nana Gecaga addresses a media briefing on August 2, 2018. KICC's management is being taken to task over a project worth Sh1.5 billion. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The project was not budgeted for in the 2018/19 estimates of KICC and was awarded without the approval of the Treasury.
A 2010 advisory by the Ministry of Lands warned the KICC management against developing the land.
The management of Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) is on the spot over the construction of a prefabricated exhibition and conference centre that will cost the taxpayer at least Sh1.5 billion.
The matter has caught the attention of the National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) that is keen to establish how the project — a temporary structure with capacity to handle between 15,000 and 20,000 delegates — was conceived and why it would cost so much money.
