Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja said there will be a proper tree planting exercise that will be done by the county and the private sector.
Speaking on Friday during the handing over of Nairobi Metropolitan Services back to the county, Sakaja said it will be in a bid to bring Nairobi above and beyond good status to the city it was before.
"If you go up KICC, which is my former office, and you look around, you see three ecological zones, there is the green side, then there is the brown side and then there is a side that looks like a desert."
"We must plan trees in the city and bring back its glory; the green city," he said.
The governor promised the county will plant more trees even as the public condemned the recent pruning of trees in the City.
Sakaja further said they will collaborate with the Central Bank of Kenya to import trees to the country.
"We are going to bring fully grown trees. We will get palm trees from Malaysia that will be planted at Harambee avenue and other areas," he said.
He added that they are also making progress on the issue of water, noting that Nairobi is a big city with thousands of people hence more water is needed.
