The D-Day For Nakuru To Become A City Is Here

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 1- President Uhuru Kenyatta is Wednesday expected to confer City Status on Nakuru.

Plans are complete for the event that started on Wednesday morning amid tight security, which will make Nakuru the fourth city in Kenyan after Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi.

The Urban Areas and Cities Act seeks to give effect to Article 184 of the Constitution which provides for classification, governance, and management of urban areas and cities.

Before classification as a city, urban areas must have infrastructural facilities like roads, street lighting, markets, fire stations, waste disposal, and disaster management capacity.

The Act indicates that they must also have integrated development plans and demonstrate a capacity to generate sufficient revenue to sustain operations.

Nakuru is home to Naivasha, an agricultural sub-county and a tourist destination. It is County number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan Counties.

Administratively, Nakuru County is subdivided into eleven sub-counties and fifty 55 wards.

Nakuru is the third most populous county in Kenya after Nairobi County and Kiambu County, in that order.

With an area of 7,496.5 km², it is Kenya’s 19th largest county in size. It was the headquarters of the Rift Valley Province.

The current Governor of Nakuru County is Lee Kinyanjui.