Nairobi, July 8 -- Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has established a new urban planning technical committee to handle building plan approvals.
The county has been without the committee after NMS director-general Mohammed Badi disbanded both City Hall's pre-technical committee and the urban planning technical committee in May to pave the way for a single team.
The two committees were responsible for consideration and approval of development plans. However, they were accused of being run by cartels and engaging in corruption resulting in delays in the approvals.
In a public notice yesterday, Major General Badi said the new multi-sectoral urban planning committee would handle all planning approvals while the director-general's office wo...