CABINET yesterday remained tightlipped about the Gecko Group's request to buy 700 hectares of the Dorob National Park to build its planned N$13-billion heavy industrial park at the coast.
In total, Gecko wants about 4 000 hectares of Dorob. However, the group has to buy 700 hectares which it can then use to raise the money needed to build its controversial Vision Industrial Park (VIP), comprising a sulphuric acid plant, a desalination plant, a soda ash and bicarbonate plant, as well an office park and port outside Swakopmund.
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