Gallagher securing Stephen Jennings' Kenyan city

(From left to right) Rendeavour CEO Stephen Jennings, Gallagher Power Systems managing director Edith Wragg and Gallagher Group chairman and CEO Sir William Gallagher at Tatu City. Picture / supplied.

A Kiwi electric fence firm is helping secure Tatu City - the massive Kenyan development being driven by New Zealand-born billionaire Stephen Jennings.

Gallagher Group, the New Zealand firm that pioneered the electric fence in 1938, is providing the equipment and technology for the perimeter security of Tatu City - a 2023ha development on Nairobi's northern outskirts.

The city is designed for 150,000 residents includes homes, schools, offices, a shopping district, medical clinics, nature areas and an industrial park.

Tatu is being developed by Rendeavour, a company founded and led by Waitara-born Jennings.

Jennings, who made a fortune as an investment banker in post-Soviet Russia, is worth $1.1b according to the NBR Rich List.

After visiting Tatu City, Gallagher chair and chief executive Sir William Gallagher said he was impressed by the project.

Gallagher was providing monitored pulse fences for Tatu that integrated with video and biometric monitoring systems as well as turnstiles which controlled entry and exit.

Some of the fittings and electronics being used in the project was being manufactured in Hamilton, Sir William said.

He hoped that Gallagher would be involved with Rendeavour's six other developments of city-like precincts in other parts of Africa.

The work could be worth "millions in due course" to Gallagher, Sir William said.

Jennings in a statement said he was delighted to be working with Gallagher, which he said was a "household name in dozens of countries around the world".