This archive report was first published on 19 December 2019.
Published on December 19, 2019, a proposed Sh5.2 billion investment by Lordship Africa Group in Nairobi's Upper Hill area has stalled due to delayed City Hall approvals.
The project, which would have employed 500 skilled and unskilled workers, has been delayed, affecting plans to fast-track completion of Africa's highest residential property, 88 Nairobi Condominium.
Jonathan Jackson, the chairman of Lordship Africa Group, expressed frustration over the delays, stating that they had hurt his ability to fulfill the promise of finishing construction by mid-2020.
Mr. Jackson, who was born in Kenya 58 years ago and schooled at Hills School, Eldoret, and St Andrews Turi, before flying to the UK for his building construction degree, chose Nairobi for his homecoming investment.
He first bought a 64-acre firm in Karen, on which he built a gated community with 60 residential plots measuring an acre each, which he sold at between Sh60 million to Sh100 million each.
Thirty-five plots have since been sold to diaspora Kenyans as well as affluent locals who must commit to using only a quarter of the land to put up a house rising not more than one storey high.
