Mwale Announces Plans For 3 Additional Smart Cities In Africa
The construction will follow MMTC’s inaugural Marathon scheduled to take place on December 16th, 2023, at MMTC in Butere Sub County Kakamega County.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 5 — Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) is finalizing the shipment of new construction equipment for new smart cities in Congo, Botswana and Sierra Leone that will begin in January 2024.
The construction will follow MMTC’s inaugural Marathon scheduled to take place on December 16th, 2023, at MMTC in Butere Sub County Kakamega County.
The marathon, the first international for MMTC is expected to attract 3,000 runners , who will compete in the 1 mile , 5 km, 10 km, 21 km and 42 km categories. Prizes of upto shs. 3.5 million are up for grabs for the winners, according to the event page on the MMTC’s website, where registration for race participants is underway.
After the Marathon race, MMTC will proceed with launching the construction of 3 new smart cities in West, Central and Southern Africa as part of an expansion plan across the continent. The equipment from MMTC’s general contractor being shipped to Brazzaville, Gaborone and Free Town have a capacity to build multiple cities simultaneously.
“The equipment consists of over two dozen cranes and other high technology construction technologies, that will accelerate the timelines for the construction of new smart cities, that will help MMTC reach a target of constructing 18 smart cities in 12 countries by 2050,” MMTC said in a statement on Wednesday, November 29.
Some of the equipment to be shipped in Kenya will be deployed for the construction of large scale affordable housing projects.
Source: Capital News