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THE STANDARD By
Boniface Gikandi |
December 24th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
A section of the Kenol market in Murangá County, which is one of the fast growing shopping centres in Central Kenya. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]
Twenty years ago, Kenol in Murang a County was a jungle no one took interest in.
Land prices were low. The lucrative option for enterprising locals was to sell land and resettle.
However, the fortunes of the area have changed. It is now one of the fastest-growing commercial centres in Central Kenya.
The market centre is where the late freedom fighter and former Kandara MP Bildad Kaggia operated a posho mill.