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    "id": 301758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogari",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 385,
        "legal_name": "Simon Ogari Arama",
        "slug": "simon-ogari"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)The Government’s plan to establish a technology city to promote Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO)/Information Technology (IT) enabling services for wealth and employment creation is progressing well. The city will be developed through a private/public partnership financing model where the Government will concentrate on provision of the necessary basic infrastructures and policy and legal framework, in accordance with the best global practices. (b)As concerns the latest progress, the Government has made tremendous achievement as demonstrated in the following activities. (i) The Konza Technopolis Development Authority that will oversee development of the project has been gazetted and the Ministry is in the process of operationalising it. (ii) Market testing has been conducted in Asia, Europe and America. (iii) The Ministry has also promoted the project through media campaigns to create interest among local investors. (iv) Expression of interest to procure a master delivery partner was completed and a request for proposals has been issued to enable us identify suitable firms or consortiums to provide technical support to the Authority. You will notice that since this answer was supplied, some developments have taken place here because the interviews were done with the master delivery partners who expressed interest. Since then, that was done with the Government of Kenya together with the IFC who is the technical advisor. The master delivery partner has been identified but the identity and details are awaited from the World Bank. (v) A perimeter fence and a site office has been constructed. (vi) The Director of Physical Planning in the Ministry of Lands has issued notices of intention to plan the 500,000 acres Konza City and the ten kilometers buffer zone around it for controlled development. In addition, the Director of Physical Planning together with the master planner partner is to complete the master plan. The Ministry is also in the final stages of getting approval for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from NEMA. I am happy to report that since then, that approval has been granted by NEMA."
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