{"id":107118,"date":"2025-01-06T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/dp-kindiki-inspects-progress-of-kenya-leather-industrial-park-in-machakos\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:06:31","slug":"dp-kindiki-inspects-progress-of-kenya-leather-industrial-park-in-machakos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/dp-kindiki-inspects-progress-of-kenya-leather-industrial-park-in-machakos\/","title":{"rendered":"DP Kindiki inspects progress of Kenya Leather Industrial Park in Machakos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6- Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has affirmed the government\u2019s commitment to driving Kenya\u2019s economic transformation through value addition and expansion of manufacturing across key industries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking following a visit to Kenanie, Machakos County, Kindiki outlined plans to establish the Kenya Leather Industrial Park (KLIP), a flagship project aimed at revitalizing the leather industry and boosting its economic contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Kindiki stated that KLIP is set to increase the leather sector\u2019s annual contribution from the current Sh 15 billion to Sh 175 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the initiative aims to create 100,000 jobs, from the industry\u2019s current workforce of 17,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya\u2019s economic transformation depends to a significant extent on growth in value addition of our raw materials and expansion of manufacturing across key value chains,\u201d the Deputy President stated.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that key infrastructure developments at KLIP are already underway.<\/p>\n<p>A common-user effluent treatment plant, designed to treat wastewater from manufacturing activities, has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This facility, Kindiki says will serve both the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) factories along Mombasa Road and Athi River, as well as the leather factories within KLIP.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the DP said four warehouses are now operational.<\/p>\n<p>These include two factories dedicated to processing hides and skins into leather and another two for producing finished leather goods.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure the project remains on schedule, Kindiki said electricity and water supply systems are being expedited, alongside the deployment of permanent policing services.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by Acting Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development Aden Duale, Principal Secretary for Livestock Development Jonathan Mueke, and other senior government officials.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6- Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has affirmed the government\u2019s commitment to driving Kenya\u2019s economic transformation through value addition and expansion of manufacturing across key industries. Speaking following a visit to Kenanie, Machakos County, Kindiki outlined plans to establish the Kenya Leather Industrial Park (KLIP), a flagship project aimed at revitalizing the leather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}