John Paul Okwiri, or JP as his friends call him, wants to build a city from scratch, no mean feat. As the CEO of Konza Technopolis Development Authority (Kotda), Okwiri, will oversea the growth of a master-planned city on 5,000-acre land that straddles the three counties of Machackos, Makueni and Kajiado.
But until then, he has to fight off a euphoric sense of cynicism, with some Kenyans dismissing the futuristic technology hub as yet another Disneyland-like fable, a white elephant.
