 You know what I really admire about you? The fact that you're doing a lot but you don't even want people to know that you're doing a lot. Yes, I think I want to be recognized after I've helped a billion people. That's the target. So if a billion people have gotten help then I will be ready for recognition. Mention his name. It's my responsibility to celebrate every African and anytime I want to celebrate every African I want every African to join me as we celebrate our own. Do me a favor. Like this video. Share this video because the man that I'm going to celebrate today. Yes, yes, yes. I'm the shaker here for like a minute. Has done something unimaginable. So according to what you say will you say that the person who owns this house is the beneficiary of the whole initiative. Exactly. What does that mean? What it means is that these landowners like now this one who lives in Nairobi they give us access to land in the back to be able to use and depending on the value of your land we build your house equivalent to the land that you provided. When Julia started this project I mean this project people did not take it lightly but for me and our family here we sat with him and we had very many questions for him to answer but we said okay can we now go into the project and on the basis that there is no business that has no risks. You see that. After we have now gone up to this level if you ask Daniel he will tell you people are now pestering him to see that he goes to their homes and do what is happening here. So far 710 people, partners, community members have participated in this program. For those 710 we've upgraded their home and then built them rentals. So the rentals range from five units to up to 16 units. So on average we have done over 4,200 different units for all the people in the community. So I want to know who built this apartment for you? This one here. In your home? Yes, I live on the home there is another house down here because you are short maybe you cannot climb here. He is an unsung hero. I mean unsung heroes in Africa are always humble. Unsung heroes in Africa hardly tell their own stories and that is why they have their number one bragger in the entire world called Wada Maya. The only African who is so proud about Africans changing lives in their own way and as the number one bragger of the continent I need to come in here and brag about this guy. So before this was, what were you guys going into? There is a small dispensary along the road and there is a sub-county hospital in Buteri in the town of Buteri. It is not very near. Today I'm trying to tell people to forget about going there then they come here where they can get doctors and get medicine immediately and get good treatment with good doctors and good nurses. You see that? I think that's a big... Do you have an ambassador for your project? My wife told me that you're a billionaire and my wife keeps on telling me that the day you meet Mr. Muali your life will never be the same. Please, change my life right now. This is your unit now so you can finish it to your liking. Yeah, you know, get it to... I still don't get it. Your unit now... Yeah, this is... No, that's for rent. You own this now. This is a gift for you coming to Kenya as an in-law from this community. This is one successful African who left Africa, went to the United States, made it so big and came up with an idea of building a city inside a village. You're building a city? Yeah. You know what a city entails? Yes. A city needs to have an airport, needs to have a power station, needs to have industries. Yes. Even places that people need to live. Yes. Yes, so... You're doing all of that in here, you're just, I mean, because the camera is there, so I just want to lie to the people. I know some of you will be like, you see crazy or something. I mean, crazy people who do extraordinary things. And what this man has done... Our cash crop was sugarcane. And the industry of sugarcane has since died. But you see, if you look at sugarcane, if you have to benefit from sugarcane growing, you need to have less than two and a half acres. These ones would give you around maybe 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 Kenyan shillings. And the sugarcane would grow for 18 months and then harvested. And then it would take another six months for the processing for you to be paid. Now, if today I can raise my 50,000 from here, then in a month, compare it with 24 months to get 50,000. So you can see, he has brought a very good project and a very good business. Did somebody ever tell you that you're crazy to be doing this in Takamega County? Yes, of course, everybody thinks we're crazy to build a city in a rural area. I know it's me very well. Yeah, mama. Umbu. Umbu ucha. Umbu ucha. Umbu ucha. Umbu ucha. Umbu ucha. Umbu ucha. My first question would be like, why would you build a city in a village? My name is Julius Moale. I'm the principal investor for Moale Medical and Technology City, located here at MMTC in Western Kenya. I've been inspired to transform lives of people in Africa. Yeah, because, you know, Africa resources have always been used to exploit the people within Africa and then, you know, help people outside, you know, the continent. And so we wanted a model that is going to benefit, you know, the people in Africa, the owners of resources like land and minerals and all the other natural resources that we have and also benefit the people that are getting those resources. So I wanted to make sure that we can drive this. We can drive this change where our generation can lead the world in making Africa the engine of the world be driven in the right direction by Africans, people that are controlling it to benefit all of us. Do you believe Africa is the future? I believe Africa is the future. I wouldn't have invested two billion dollars to build a city here. Yeah, and then expanding that city as a concept to other cities in Africa. This is the future and the future is here today. We studied this city with a feasibility study in 2007 to 2012. In five years we spent four million dollars and we found out that 180,000 people in this, you know, East Africa region go to India for medical treatment. And so we decided that, you know, why can't we capture that market by putting a medical city? Yeah, that has innovation park and, you know, transforming community people within this region being able to raise their levels of life. So we are here, we've built a city. It's the number one green city in the world, smart city in the world. Yeah, only one to exist. And we are taking this concept, the concept of the city, all over Africa to 18 locations in 12 countries in Africa. Starting out from Sierra Leone, in Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, you know, Cameroon, coming all the way down to Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Zambia, Mozambique and, you know, Angola. So we are doing this to transform our entire continent of Africa and for cities that look like this that are transformed, you know, in the world. And so we want to change Africa, 800 million people, we are targeting to put them, transform their lives, put them in middle class by the year 25th. Mr. Julius Muali. Yes. My wife told me that you are a billionaire and my wife keeps on telling me that the day you meet Mr. Muali please change my life right now. Your life has already changed. You know, after meeting me I think your life has changed. You got to see how the city has been transformed here in Africa and I'm a billionaire of ideas. Billionaires of, you know, the wealth of getting people out of poverty. So that's my billionaire, my billionaire is my net worth is how many people am I moving from poverty? Yeah, that's my wealth. That's, you know, how many people if I don't I want to move millions out of poverty. Yeah, you know, in my lifetime. And that's my net worth. That's how I look at myself. A billionaire that wants to move people from poverty? Can you let me know how was life like when you were growing up? Literally this house this is where I was born in 1976. Yeah, and I'm a sixth born. There were five sisters ahead of me. And then there's one behind me and then there's another brother behind me. So they are four boys, eight girls. So the last born boy in our culture here in the Luya culture of western Kenya stays in the ancestral home to take care of the graves. I have my father's grave right here with a tree. He passed on in 2005 and my mother's tree is right here. I grew up here. I grew up, I used to go there's a creek down there. There's a river that I used to fish and plant yams or arrowroot and potatoes down there. That's what I used to do. I liked farming. I grew up in a village. I'm connected to people. We were 12 siblings of us growing up in the community here. My last born brother stays here now. And we were working on the farm and going to school as our father who was a farmer and a businessman in this area helped us to be able to see the importance of getting people out of poverty, helping the community. And that's what I got to do. You see a stubborn guy when he was growing up. Very stubborn, eh? So which is, if all of you are classmates, you grew up together. Yes, yes. Going to school, how was your life? I really wanted to know. So this is, we're talking about about 40 years ago. Between like 1980 and 1986 and 87. So that's when we were together in primary school. And we were here. The roads were impassable. They were muddy. You had hyena, we had hyenas here and leopards. That's when you grew up. When you were going to school in the morning you ran into hyena. That guy standing there killed a hyena right here in the rocks. When we were going to school. So that's when we grew up in this area. So we got it now opened up and the hyenas were taken in reserves. And leopards in the reserves. We have a big reserve where these animals are. So we have 12 of us. We are all in here. So this is a shrine. This is now a tribe. This is now a shrine. It's come to you now for future generations. It doesn't get messed up. So this was built in 1969. And this electricity came in this house in 1969. Which year were you born? I was born in 1976. You lived here all your life? Yes, I lived here until I was 18 years old. So I went to the military after I finished here and I studied telecommunication engineering and then I invented the technology when I went to America for biometrics that transformed the way people did business to access business on the internet. Made money there and then I came back to do a study to invest in the city right here. That's a summary. I don't want a summary. We have to go into details. My next question will be like why you left Kenya in the first place? So I left Kenya. I mean the 18-year-old Muali. Why did you leave Kenya? No, so I left Kenya. I joined the military in 1994. So I left in 2000. I did telecommunication engineering. So I went to the U.S. and political asylum. Because there was misunderstanding that technology had created. And I went to the U.S. for asylum to be able to protect my own identity and the technology that I had that I wanted to be able to use to help. If you went for political asylum, which means you ran away? I think I'll put it in that way. I'd say I excluded myself to be able to protect the technology that I had. What was the first country that you went to? Because you cannot just fly from here to America if you're planning to run away. Definitely you have to jump into it. I was in Uganda for six months. Trying to get asylum there. And then I ended up in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe? There were farm invasions in the year 2000. That's when I was in Zimbabwe and that's where I was there for nine months looking for the UN Refugee Agency to be able to get me to get political asylum there in Zimbabwe. And then they referred me to the U.S. and that's where I was offered my political asylum. At what point did your life change in the U.S.? I spent about a year in a homeless shelter. I was a homeless man when I arrived there waiting for paperwork. To be able to get paperwork from 2001 I was there starting in July. I started starting in May and then I left the shelter in May 2002. And September 11 happened when I was in the shelter. And I got to witness that and say that. And then an idea came to me I was like look I can create technology that can be able to protect the networks. You know the banking networks from attack. You know terrorist attacks going in the future. I knew no one else had the power to do that and I was working already on my technology and this was an opportunity to be able to cure this problem for the world and for good. You would say that technology changed your life? Yeah it did. At what point did that technology transform the company in 2003? And what I did I created you know a two-factor authentication. I went to the local authorities who are the elected senate office in New York and they were helping small businesses to be able to create jobs. So I said hey, you know can we be able to propose a two-factor authentication for banks so that you know there's a username and password and another level like a token, a picture I proposed biometrics for that and then the congress put up that legislation in 2004 and it went into effect in 2006 and my technology now became the go-to technology for bigger banks. I had Bank of New York, I had Bank of America and I had JP Morgan as my first clients you know with this technology and that's how I made money and that became very successful. It became very successful. I was talking about billions of dollars you know millions of dollars. I would like to describe it as you know millions of people getting help. I mean that's the wealth of a billionaire. That's the wealth of anybody. For the work you are busy committed to perform you have tried so much to enlighten each and every corner there is no kind of darkness. There is no kind of darkness although by the region. This is the power plant it's a 10 megawatt solar power plant and this power plant we put it here to be able to power the 2 billion dollar city so we have a 5000 bed facility which is a hospital and then we have an entire shopping district growth district we have even built an airport and we have an innovation park and this is a city that is supposed to basically transform the lives of people here in the communities and extended to Africa. My first question would be like why would you build a city in a village? It knows me very well. We know. Yes, so this area we did a feasibility study and we saw this area has about 16 million people between the lake here about 30 kilometers from Lake Victoria in western Kenya and then to the Mount Elgon we are another one hour from Mount Elgon there's 16 million people in 14 counties and that's a third of the Kenya's population. So this land here it's equivalent to Nairobi metropolitan region which only has 8 million people so if you want impact and you want to help people in Africa you go where the people are and this is the area 10 megawatt solar power plant being upgraded to 50 megawatt and what it does is it draws power from the sun and helps us not rely on the national grid that has a lot of demand from other growing economy and so we have 24 7 available power that can power the city at any time. And all the power comes from here? Yeah, all the power that runs the city comes from here so an average city like say example in America in Sababan city needs a 10 megawatt run it we have that here so we can run power in Kakamega, Kisumu this city is in western Kenya from here but now we have this for this system That is really brilliant man maybe I need to have a new name for you a visionary leader? Thank you, I appreciate that but I mean being a businessman with this vision for your own people in Africa we say why do people like you don't run for politics I mean don't run for being the leader of a country so influence is very important and you get influence by helping people politics is one way of having influence and it's one way of helping people so you can help people through business and so long as you know my goal is to end poverty to be able to help people and I'm doing it well through business and it's been very effective so far so I have no ambition to get involved in politics. So since the whole project is two billion dollars how to pronounce two billion dollars how much did it cost you for this power plant? So the power plant is about 100 million dollars yeah this plant 100 million dollars but it's sustainable and it will stay here for over 100 years without needing minimal payers. You don't think Africa don't need this whole hybrid instead of why not the whole continent based on solar because we have the most sunshine? Yes but all countries in Africa can get solar for example there's the latitude around areas of Rwanda going up to Congo and Ethiopia they can't use solar because there's not enough sun there but Sahara needs solar. Ghana needs solar Kenya needs solar we are right on the equator so we need solar and we've seen it to be very sustainable then I think African leaders from this part of the continent needs to invest in solar you don't think so? Yes it's very sustainable very reliable and cheaper in the long term cheaper and easy to maintain It's more like you are empowering the people living in this area? Yes we are empowering the people we haven't relocated them from this community here so what we do we integrate them like you know we go to their land and we tell them look you want to partner with us in the city we build them rental homes we put our workers there we upgrade their homes we give them electricity and then we are able to give them our workers to rent every month and they are earning money there that's bigger than the Bacapita income of Kenya What's going on? He was his classmate Back in here? Our school is right here in this community that's where we were in the 1980s There was one guy when he was growing up very stubborn but not so much But you guys are still friends? Yes We are city friends here now So by now I'm working in the construction there he is his class and I gave him something like a land where there is some construction going on and I know that place will be very very nice and I will be very very happy when that place will be okay That's amazing It's good to be working with your classmate Yes So these are the people we are transforming So this is what the city is being built for now he is a contractor and he has a full-time job his property is being upgraded his community has street lights his roads are done the kids are going to school Construction is it at the hospital? Yes He is extending a new wing at the hospital That's amazing He is a welder He is a fixer Very nice one This is my home This is a house for my son one of them and this is where I lived from 1988 until very recently and moved to the next one which now comes in the hand of the chief investor after he came around and he said he wanted to transform these homes not only my home but homes Now this one is where I currently live here So you will find that this is another project which is an apartment It has 10 houses inside here He is planning to bring in the renters and these are single rooms Here This is single So it depends on the size of your family You may be single but you are in a bigger room and he is now equipping them right off So let us see On this side we have 4 of them and on this side we have 6 of them So together they are 10 and you can see that they are all mine So that story that is taking people's land is nice I don't even know that story What story is that? Have you been hearing that story? Yes I have heard of it That is why I am mentioning it Including the president he did not know how we are getting this work done without ejecting people from their homes and farms Let me clarify this Yes How did this happen? What was the contract between you When he came he called a big meeting and he said he is telling us what he wants to do and you know he is a local son here I am told you have been at the MP's home that is his younger brother and now he was going to school near there and they say he will go to school barefooted and then after that he went to high school and from the high school he went to the forces and from the forces he comes out and says I want to do ABCD and then people wonder how a small boy like this saying these very big things so they said no this one has an hidden agenda to maybe take our land maybe he has a lot of money to take away our land so that was the misconception Are you satisfied? I am not satisfied Did he take your land? No I want to show you what is happening Who built this apartment for you? This one here In your home? Yes There is another house down here because you are short maybe you cannot climb here You have seen it There is another one through there That one is for my son Wow But that one is not in the program So this one and this one 10 plus that that one 12 So let me show you how it came to be We are consuming this water It is part of what he did here and you can see I was looking for water from a well Now I am getting it from the borehole I am no longer looking for water from the well Now look at that fence You see that fence That fence is a boundary between me and him Now when he took that land he gave me all these things you can see We are in agreement that this is what he was supposed to do From the beginning he said that and he has done it So this one has changed from a farm into a golf course This is the old church where we have been praying from and as I said his idea that he is going to give a donation or a gift to the community then he comes up with that one there In fact this one is a big big church we are going to go inside so that you see the size of it It is larger than the community Thank you, I appreciate it I really want to know how are you changing lives in here? Yes So we have a free prompt approach So the first one is that we are building new homes for people here and giving them rentals and workers trying to their homes And then number two we go to their kids we educate them So we are able to send them to school we educate their homes we educate their kids and then those kids go and get education anywhere that they want whether they want to go to Nairobi University University of Ghana or they want to go to Oxford we pay for their education and they can come back and then work at the hospital work at the power plant they can work in construction they can work in dining and hospitality in those areas so they are being treated at our hospital largest in the world and they are coming here getting treatment for free if you are from this county on an NHIF which is a national hospital insurance fund so we don't charge people co-pay when they come in for treatment no co-pay charge, we just charge the insurance company for the fees of treatment So anyone from this village get treatment for free? Not from this village from this county you have that kind you get free treatment