Nation | by Charles Lwanga
A multi-billion-shilling investment in Kilifi county now hangs in the balance after the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) suspended the construction it had earlier approved to establish a sweet processing firm.
The construction of Mzuri Sweets Limited at Kwa Kadzengo along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, which was set to employ more than 1,000 people, is 80 percent complete.
The investment, whose owner estimates to cost US$20 million (Sh2 billion), located next to a wetland, had also obtained approvals to backfill the wetland and create an artificial one which would be a recreational park…
