MMTC Shares Plans to Build 3 Additional Smart Cities in Africa
The shipments of new construction equipment for the new smart cities in Congo, Botswana, and Sierra Leone, which are scheduled to start in January 2024, are being finalized by Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC).
The building will take place after the first Marathon at MMTC, which is set for December 16, 2023, at MMTC in Butere Sub County, Kakamega County.
3,000 runners are anticipated for the marathon, which is MMTC’s first international event. They will participate in the 1 mile, 5 km, 10 km, 21 km, and 42 km divisions. The MMTC website’s event page, where race participants can register, states that prizes of up to Shs. 3.5 million could be won by the victors.
As part of an expansion plan across the continent, MMTC will move forward with the construction of three new smart towns in West, Central, and Southern Africa following the Marathon race. Multiple cities can be built at once with the equipment that MMTC’s general contractor is shipping to Brazzaville, Gaborone, and Free Town.
“The equipment consists of over two dozen cranes and other high technology construction technologies, that will accelerate the timelines for the construction of new smart cities, that will help MMTC reach a target of constructing 18 smart cities in 12 countries by 2050,” the MMTC said in a statement on November 29.
Large-scale affordable housing projects will be built in Kenya with the help of some of the equipment that is scheduled to be sent there.
Following the completion of the MMTC project in Kenya, which is already operational, MMTC will expand to other parts of Africa.
The 2019 opening of Hamptons Hospital, which serves both medical tourists and Kenyans, serves as the cornerstone of MMTC in Kenya.
The planned city in the Brazaville-Kinshasa metropolitan area, which would improve medical tourism and universal healthcare in Central Africa, will be anchored by Hamptons Hospital.
“With roughly 20 million residents, the metro area is among the largest in the world,” MMTC stated in a statement in July.
The three main pillars of the cities are renewable energy, agrotech, and healthcare.
Following a meeting with President Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi, MMTC Founder Julius Mwale announced in April that Hamptons Hospital would be expanding to Botswana.
Masisi brought up medical tourism as one potential area of collaboration with Hamptons Hospital, located in MMTC, during the discussions.
Mwale traveled to the nation to take part in the Forbes Under 30 Summit, which got underway on April 23 and will end on April 26, 2023.
Slumber Tsogwane, the vice president of Botswana, paid a benchmarking tour visit to the city of Butere in Kakamega County on June 7, 2023.
Simon Chelugui, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and Enterprise Development, accompanied Tsogwane.
“The VP was visiting MMTC for benchmarking. More than a dozen high-ranking government representatives from both Botswana and Kenya accompanied him, including Hon. Simon Chelugui, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and Enterprise Development, and Hon. Lemogang Kwape, Botswana’s Foreign Minister “MMTC said in a news release.
Africa is seeing a rise in the use of MMTC’s integrated smart city development approach, which keeps the community intact.
Following a two-week tour of the West African nation, Mwale met President Julius M. Bio of Sierra Leone in October 2022.
After attending President William Ruto’s inauguration the month before, the president of Sierra Leone extended an invitation to Mwale and his delegation to visit the West African nation.
The delegation also had meetings with representatives of the public and business sectors as well as local chiefs.
As an extension of MMTC, “our team will invest in a new smart City with a focus on Agriculture, healthcare, energy, transport, and manufacturing sectors,” MMTC said in a press release following the meeting.
