 So this place used to be the place that they grow sugarcane? Here where we're standing used to be sugarcane for a local factory that now you know collapsed and so the farmers in this area had no economic activity and then by bringing you know medical city those farmers we entered into agreement in land so we told them look you know you can come in and partner with us. We have gone from where we were because where people are doubting us seeing different things the only problem is that if we stayed waiting to see I don't know how we would see without going into the into their project but today the idea has changed you see for example myself I'm changing from a farmer into a landlord. You really inspired the idea of your city what is the inspiration behind it? Yeah the inspiration behind the city was a vision a vision of transforming lives of people in Africa so I wanted to I grew up wanting to transform people making sure they're living within our culture within authentic African culture but with infrastructure that is going to modernize you know access to health care good roads. This road was not a road okay this was a path it was a path here going this river down here and we used to go to see him over there we were to cross a river here sometimes we had a makeshift bridge which would be swept away by water but now you can see he has given us a road then you can see the lighting system you know they light in the night and they reduced burglary theft all funny things that happened in the night before he never had his life no no no I'm telling you he's the only one who opened this this road are you saying that there was nothing like a road it was a path during the water party. Africans living in diaspora to come help invest in Waleh technology city? Yes Africans in diaspora as my fact we have over 800 of them that have participated into partnership in this project and we are welcoming them many of them want to work here in the hospital going to have 2,000 actors you know 4,000 asses they want to get those positions and they are already basically 800 of them have already partnered to come back and stay here and others are building apartments to be able to live in so this is like you know there's no culture shock in transition transitioning from outside in the west to a city like this yeah that has you know nature no pollution and you know you're an African your home you won't struggle you know the way we'll struggle in other cities in the world. Mr. Julius Muali yes 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 You look like I asked you to get it. Everybody's on unit now. Your unit now you are for rental. Yeah this is no that's for rental you own this now this is a gift for you coming to Kenya as an in-law from this community. No. Yeah this is two bedrooms. Yeah this is two bedrooms. For me yeah yeah you know I'm all over the world. Yes. It's up to you now it's no longer mine so this is all yours now so it's up to you. Caribou Caribou that's good that's good. Your name is Mr. Julius Muali. Yes. I'm changing it to Mr. Lifechanger. Thank you appreciate it. I really want to know how are you changing lives in here. Yes 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 to rent the homes yeah and then number two we go to their kids we educate them so we're able to send them to school people from these 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 yeah we pay for the education and they can come back and then work at the hospital yeah you know work at the power plant they can work in construction they can work you know in dining and hospitality and those areas and the last area that we're transforming them is by giving them access to high quality health care so they are being treated at our hospital largest in the world and they're 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 you know when they come in for treatment no co-pay charge we just charge the insurance company yeah for the fees of treatment so anyone from this village get treatment for free not from this village from this county it's two million people two million people you have that card you get free treatment so this is the site of the terminal of the airport yeah yeah we're building an airport it's going to be one of the biggest airport here in the country yeah bigger than the sumi international airport and so we're going to have people flying in directly for treatment at the hospital yeah you know here for so which means the hospital i mean you did not just build it for the people of this community yeah but the entire world to come and have yes yeah for medical tourism remember 180 000 east africans go to india every year for treatment yeah so we want a third of that 60 000 to come and land here and be treated at hamptons hospital so this is the main area that they're going to get in the airport and then i have a kebo station for kebuka using our solar power to be able to take people all the way to all the way to the hospital so there won't be a need for these roads here yeah so they go with the kebuka all the way to the hospital yeah they don't interfere with the community no one interferes with the village with their cows and and goats yes yes yes we're doing this with people from the village you have 710 already why is it important for you to work with the local community yeah the local community we have to upgrade them to be the owners you want to build a sustainable city in africa you have to make africans the owners of the own resources so they have to be the beneficiaries of their land you know that's how you keep everything sustainable they have to be the stakeholders the owners and they have we have 25 000 acres here in the city and the community owns 20 000 of that land and we own 5 000 acres of the land what are you going to begin the construction of the airport yeah we've started clearance of the runway yeah and so this is going to be finished by february yeah when now we have the first aircraft to land here in march next year you have private jet yourself which means you'll be landing here yeah yeah this is the main area so when i come on the ground instead of landing in kisumu so this is the school i went to wow what are you doing to change the face of your school yeah the school we've already upgraded the school we've put in we've put in power electricity we've put them on a program for treatment so all the students get treated without paying any money you know in the hospital yeah and then we're doing scholarships for students that go there to school so we pay scholarships for them yeah to be able to study you know yeah so we have another school that we're working with it's called sendendrums you know in emanga there's a loonza boys secondary school yeah so we're doing classrooms dormitories yeah you know abolution blocks and administration block so which means you actually help in every school that is within the city within the city yeah there are 10 of them within the city well i just heard the kids shouting his name i'm like what are they saying you know my mind was not even there that this kid's actually shouting moale yeah so i mean let me just go and join them because me i'm a village but wherever i go i want to play just like them you know when i was a kid i used to play like them but can i give me trophies thank you when i got in here i did i did this is where the kids came from all of a sudden i heard them shouting moale moale which means the kids know say that anytime they have to say moale they're gonna get something yeah i can't stay moale i didn't come and welcome back home yeah thank you thank you welcome welcome why are you welcoming me yeah welcoming you i've been in africa all the time now you're in moale city you're moale medical technology city western kenya your first time well that's why you're welcoming me that's why i'm welcoming me and i am welcoming you back to kenya back to kenya thank you thank you so much thank you so much how does it feel like being back here i love it i travel frequently so i love it and kenya is my favorite place to be yes despite being in america this year it's about being in america live in new york city it's new york city so but this is our city so being here we live in our own city african city that we've built ourselves when you hear the name africa what comes into your mind yeah africa is an engine that runs the world like you know africa you know what we're doing now we've started becoming drivers so we are the drivers of that engine what's happened in the years past you know africa has been a place where the drivers that came from china or drivers came from the west and we were the engine and then we're being driven anyway so but right now we are the drivers driving that engine that runs the world wow you're building a city in the village yes i'm sorry before i consider yeah i don't want anybody to hear yeah it's everything okay we choose though i mean if you want to build a city you have to build a city in a city yeah yes yeah so a city like every city you see in africa was built in a village yeah starting from nirobi akra those were fishing villages dubai those were fishing villages and you have to have an economic engine to build a city and the biggest one are people so you have the population here in western kenya about 16 million people in the lake region of kenya yeah that's twice more people than in the nirobi region the whole city is called moale medical and technology city mmtc mmtc and how many acres of the city said it all yeah the city uh it has the outer perimeter is 25 000 acres and then the core part of the city that we own it's 5000 acres you own only 5000 yes out of the 25 000 out of 25 000 who owns the 20 000 the community so we did it's an integrated master development plan so the community owns 80 percent of the city and we own 20 percent of the city so the the vital infrastructure of the city like including the 5000 bed hospital including the the shopping uh the power plant the airport you know the apartments those ones are owner 5000 acres but the community have their own homes they have upgraded rentals you know living on it you know within the city no one was displaced from the city i don't understand i i i want us to go into details yeah yeah when you came up with the idea of building the city yeah i mean you chose kakamega yes just because you were born and raised here that's that's true yes what was the first ever building that you built in here yeah so i built this this is a citadel it was a residence that i came i told people look we are really coming here to build the city we did a first ability study and we were like okay uh from 20 2007 to 2012 we were like okay we need to break ground and put up a two billion dollar city so we started by creating labor by getting people here taught by professionals to be able to have capacity transferred for them to be able to to build the city so we started this was built by 3000 local people and they did this in six months what yeah and it's a two acre roof collecting water you know from the rain and a million uh our leaders of water that is stored from the rain that runs you know the entire building this building yeah that's sustainable and it runs on solar energy does it mean the whole city is sustainable city exactly the city runs on 10 megawatt 10 megawatt you know solar power plant so it's sustainable and you know it takes power from the sun so we don't need you know to to stay on the national grid of pollutant back it tells a lot yes and i really want to know if you really know what you're doing yes because a city needs to have apartment yeah industries yes i mean power yeah yeah are you doing all of that in here exactly so we we have five districts in this city five districts that run the city so we have the main district it's the hospital district we call it plaza so has the the shopping and dining malls are here we have mantons mall we have supermarket we have you know bed and breakfast you know hospitality and we have residents it's these are residents we have in this district we also have the 5000 bed facility an economic engine for this city industrial district we have you know the big power plant there you know 10 megawatt you know solar power plant you know running the city in the residential district it's the golf district you know which has like you know the golf course 36 Hall Hampton's golf course you know well manicured and has locals living on golf owned property next to the you know next to the golf course you see that the whole stretch is for golf yeah this is a new thing here yeah we did have this kind of games here but today you can see i will also learn to how to play to play the golf and it's very much near here i'll enjoy it especially in the evenings we can cross here you can jump over here and go to the field and see how it looks like you don't the only advantage you have is that you are very short otherwise Julius will remain there with the wires yes yes yes yes and then this is hi and then this is this is my nephew here Collins you watch my videos yes i do wow come and do shooting at my place where where is the busier busier busier is on the border with Uganda wow yeah how are you i'm very good very good welcome yeah congratulations yeah thank you thank you and this is my nephew yeah this is my nephew Collins yeah yeah yeah so he's one of the heavy hitters yes yes yes yes yes yeah so this is the placer district you have you know the hampton's cafe yeah you know in the hampton's mall so this is the cafe here serves all the residents of the city and visitors that come in so they are served there it's been operational since 2016 so for six years so this is one of the main buildings and establishments that were put up you know when the city started yeah and this way this is the entrance to hampton's mall and so the mall has the supermarket as an anchor the supermarket takes you know local produce from the farmers who live in the city so they grow the produce they bring it here you know in the supermarket it's sold to consumers here of the city one of the reasons why i love the fact that mr moale gave me a home in here is that listen i love the rain if not this camera out i've removed my clothes just to shower in the rain because me and rain we are more like best friends but hey living in a city you know we need to grow our own food right and we need to feed ourselves and you know people were saying out there that mr moale actually took all the land did not allow the farmers to farm their own products and stuff but apparently there are people that are farming in here and feeding the entire community hi you're one of the farmers in here yes i'm one of the farmers here wow it's raining and you want to join me in the rain yes i love that rain and me have one thing or another because we need rain exactly exactly i'm so glad that you're not sold because if you are sold you have met them today yes that's why we farm on the land exactly tell me you partner with moale medical city yes i do what are you doing for them then i supply farm products you supply farm product yes to who to moale to moale yes moale city wow the the moale and the hospital you supply them food yes but you are in the city too yes so you farming in part of the land of the city and i've leased other lands also wow that's to make sure that they are continuing supply that that's amazing man so apart from moale who else do you sell your product to i have several schools i supply in seven different schools secretary schools seven different seven inside the city no okay in the neighborhood in the neighborhood yes man which means you're living the life man yes you try because i've been feeding the whole mmtc yes which means you're making good amount of money you want i want to be your friend you are welcome you see like uh since i said i partner with moale yeah about six years now uh i supply most of my products here like especially during the pandemic okay pandemic yeah those three years no most of my other clients were schools so schools when they closed up i had a lot of vegetables and i found products like cassava bananas yep and fruits so we find that uh moale remain the only uh corporate partner everybody left you yes you're the only the only corporate partner because they have to close them because the pandemic so if one of the the moale was not there in the hospital would have been worse i've been worse for you yes that's amazing man yes i don't know why you're not getting wet it's like the rain is just hitting me alone it's dirty see i don't know what's happening i love the rain but i don't think i love this one because it's small like the rain is salty i don't know if it's spicy or maybe you grow spices in the air somehow it has affected the rain we are privileged as a community and a society wow if you are if you are keen enough uh one time during the last era the last two eras the government has been thinking about the consa city which is just a story but now you have moale city which is live thing that you can come and see you have the development that the technology is there and uh it's obvious the people benefit from it you have the hospital with the facilities wow yeah and then of course you have the hospital on this side and and it has the research park research and innovation park uh and this is a full-fledged city it's a tech city it's a medical and tech city innovation park yeah you know and you know they the medical can i tell you something uh-huh they're actually empowering the people from this village yes i mean sorry i mean it's a city now right yeah but don't forget that before it became a city it used to be a village yes right yeah you're empowering the people yeah for you to grow your vegetables and come and sell it right here yeah you don't need to go far away exactly so you have a ready market you supply them every end of the week you're getting you know your let me ask you this question will you really inspire the idea of your city yeah what is the inspiration behind it yeah the inspiration behind the city was a vision a vision of transforming lives of people in Africa so i wanted to i grew up wanting to transform people making sure they're living within our culture within authentic african culture but with infrastructure that is going to modernize you know access to healthcare good roads you know good uh shopping good hospitality yeah you know good housing so that kind of life that will be able to sustain our cultures you know for centuries to come and we wanted to to basically take that seat and become a motor man be able to drive it do you think it's your responsibility to transform lives yeah i think so i think it's every human's responsibility to transform lives for example you know parents you know they were given land from the their grandparents and they transformed those lives by using that land to feed us using that land grow sugarcane educators you know that's transforming life and we've gotten the same land turned it into the city so this place used to be the place that they'll grow sugarcane here where we're standing used to be sugarcane for a local factory that now you know collapsed and so the farmers in this area had no economic activity and then by bringing you know medical city those farmers we ended into agreement in land so we told them look you know you can come in and partner with us the way you partner is that if you get a neck of land we are able to build you four rental units and we'll put our workers in it and then we'll be able to upgrade your home so that you know you are able to you are able to basically live in a modern home yeah and then of course have your kids you know get education and then you are you'll have to get education to get jobs within the city and then lastly you'll be able to get you know free health care you know free access to health care and we've done one two three done and dust it we have gone from where we were because where people are doubting i've seen different things the only problem is that if we stayed waiting to see i don't know how we would see without going into the into their project but today the idea has changed that even some people who are not very near here are growing you see that and the land also has appreciated very very immensely the land is going at a very high cost in 2003 i was buying a piece of land for one acre of land at 60 000 shillings this time you have to buy it over a million shillings you can see it has appreciated very fast within a very short time which means people have now realized that investment can be done here if you put up your house you would have rents and you see for example myself i'm changing from a farmer into a landlord so i grew up here for me africa is the center of the world so engine runs the world and when i say engine what i mean is that you know for decades and centuries everybody's come to africa to extract you know assets to run their own lives like every powerful kind of world or continent rely on africa oil africa minerals to be able to basically do all the activities and of course african people so what we did is that you know we wanted to make sure that african resources yes they should run the world but they should be also empowering the people that own those resources and that's what we did say we not going to buy your land we're going to partner upgrade you make you a landlord and then of course give you access to many days and then sustain your future for centuries to come otherwise according to me as i had said if the if the governor had not interrupted him he would have very many things that would have been accomplished but right now daniel is my advisor here he says we are at 97 percent you can see the only three percent which i said some of them are just finishing and when we do the finishing near in the near future we shall have completed all the the three percent that is remaining so um we are very proud of the whole thing anytime that you come in here yeah how do you feel no i feel very accomplished i'll say you know life is uh literally a transition for us in this community my parents you know live their life they were guardians of our land and our lives they passed the pattern to us to the next life and we feel that right now we are passing you know we've done enough for a generation and our future generations are secured by being where i am so i'm very i feel so accomplished and very happy never better never better in life never better than this i've transformed almost 50 million people but i'm headed to almost 200 million people by the end of you know this decade and and we're going to beat that target by that in 2050 what do you see this city in the next 10 years i in the next 10 in next 10 years i see this city being one of the largest cities you know this continent in africa i see it being you know a second largest city here in kainia and being you know some of the one of the largest cities you know in africa bigger than you know abedabi you know in the next decade are you looking forward to replicate this city in different african countries yes i'm looking forward to do 18 of the cities yeah you know in 12 countries in africa including your own gana including takaradi you know where you're from there oh wow so we want to be able to do that in gana this is the motto city for africa by africans and this is the future of africa for our uh 1.4 billion people and this is how i love the fact that said this is a city built by africans for africans yes do you believe that africans for africans yes it is and it's uh i told you engine of the world and so we drive the world it's africa is for humanity i'll say it for humanity and the word africa is humanity it's the engine that runs life but i think africans don't know the value of africa yeah i think africans do know like in a city like this africans are the ones that came up and say hey we want to come together and put 5 000 acres of land to be able to build our own city because they understood the value they understood if you brought two billion dollars here in this city yeah it will be able to grow them and will be literally the center of the world now we are the center of the world in health care of the largest hospital in the world you know so that's like you know africans get it it's just that you know uh people have been telling them for centuries that you know europe or china or other places are the leading places of shining lights of the world but those places live on africa resources they live on africa oil they live on africa minerals and now on africa human resources tell me more about the hospital before i let you go yeah the hospital 5 000 bed facility has an innovation park and that innovation park is the center of cardiology yeah you know and advanced you know radiology and so we have cancer cancer center in that part uh we have female quotient female quotient is an empowerment program for african women so to come in to empower african women of course you should know that miss trudy is our partner in female quotient so they have 4 000 square feet of space in this you know tech park you know in the innovation park of the hospital so 5 000 bed facility you know the largest you know hospital in the world trudy you know 12 000 patients when everything in it it's finished after you know covid you know i have so many africans that watch my videos if you have a message for africans what would that message be yeah i'll tell them that you know life is a transition for all of us and in africa we have to transition as we live our our own you know culture intact our authentic culture intact and to do that we have to take ownership we have to be the drivers we have to be the drivers of our culture yeah we have we have the engine we have the human resources on any other continent in the world yeah we have the the minerals on any other continent in the world we have you know the the oil we have you know than any other continent in the world so this is the center of the world and any african should become a driver and drive this the way everybody else drives their own lives in their own continents what is the biggest lesson you've learned in life yeah first is uh my my classmate uh fourth grade 1984 1984 1985 it was my classmate yes yes now he's yeah he's works in the city how long have you worked here nine years in this city so these were the people that started building the city so which year did you start this building the city i started in 2014 yeah 2014 and he was among the first people that started he was literally the first he did electrical he's an electrical engineer so he oversees the repairs of all the 3,500 solar street lights the repairs of all the lights checks the bulbs in the city we have over 122,000 bulbs light bulbs within the city rooms everywhere his team oversees that they replace the one every day the lights are off in one specific point and he's in charge of doing that and that's it yeah what i've learned in life is that uh you know when you're growing up yeah you have a future that you have to hand over to the next generation so everything you're doing today has to be has to be able to sustain and be there for centuries to come and that's why we build our cities with sustainability you know for centuries to come you know what what i really admire about you yeah the fact that you're doing a lot yeah but you don't even want people to know that you're doing a lot yes i think uh i want to be recognized after i've helped a billion people yeah you know that's the target so if a billion people have gotten help then i will be ready for recognition what is the secret behind your success yeah the secret is you know first of all i have a vision so vision is important for everything so everything you do you begin with an end in mind you draw a vision and you work towards it so i have the ability i'm self-taught to have the ability to be able to see things before they happen and then i work slowly you know towards that vision and everyone should be able to aspire to that vision because i saw the city uh before it came to fruition the way it looks now my last question yes yes i mean the city is here yeah i mean i'm seeing it yeah i'm enjoying it yes definitely there were challenges yes yes yes what was the major challenges that you face bringing this up yeah bigger challenges land like you know they were to build a city you need land and you know to be able to basically work with the community bringing them together and getting them to agree on being able to provide land to build the city that was a biggest challenge because it will bring political challenges and other challenges that will be able to stop that but with a vision every challenge is a step to success if you had a chance to change one thing in Africa what will it be yeah one thing in Africa if i had a chance to change it yeah i'll change you know the way Africans have been basically moving you know abroad and not being able to return back in large numbers to invest back i'll be like you know just like me i went abroad to america i decided to come back and then i brought that knowledge and the resources back to community back to africa to be able to build africa so i'll want Africans that go abroad for example nigeria has about 30 million yeah nigerians you know outside nigeria and those 30 million nigerians who are the most advanced people in africa yeah she'll be able to come back to africa to nigeria and even to kenya and be able to help with that knowledge and transform you know this continent of africa do you need africans living in the diaspora to come help invest in marley technology city yes africans in diaspora as my fact we have over 800 of them that have participated into partnership in this project and we are welcoming them many of them want to work here in the hospital gonna have 2000 actors you know 4 000 assays they want to get those positions and they already basically 800 of them have already partnered to come back and stay here and others are building apartments to be able to live in so this is like you know there's no uh culture shock in transition transitioning from outside in the west to a city like this yeah that has you know nature no pollution and you know you're an african your home you won't struggle you know the way we'll struggle in other cities in the world what do you think will happen if the diasporas come together and say that you know what we are coming back to africa yeah that will be a revolution that will be a big revolution if the aspirants can do that it's been done in israel we saw israel was created by diaspora you know they went there and they brought they build a powerful country in the east it's happened in iraland you know most irish americans came back and then moved to iraland in 1980s iraland was a third world country to what it is today a superpower it's because of the diaspora coming back we are there now so we are back in africa and you know this continent is going to lead the world you know within the next decade it's what i want to say thank you so much for talking to me and i really appreciate any time any time don't stop keep building cities and definitely one day you'll build taqara before me you know from thank you