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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the County Governments (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of 2016) be now read a Second Time. The principal object of the Bill is to amend the Third Schedule of the County Governments Act No.17 of 2012 so as to change the physical location of the headquarters of Kirinyaga County from Kerugoya Urban Area to Kutus Urban Area. This comes as a result of misunderstanding of placement of names where ‘urban area,’ according to many people, was misunderstood to mean Kerugoya Town. The main object of the Bill is that Kerugoya Urban Area extends up to Kutus. At one time I represented a constituency called Kerugoya-Kutus and there was a municipality called Kerugoya-Kutus. When I was representing both the towns of Kerugoya and Kutus as a municipality and also as a constituency, the two names were used synonymously. In this amendment Bill, Kutus will appear before Kerugoya. Kutus Urban Area will now be the headquarters of Kirinyaga County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kutus is in a central position. It is along the main road between Sagana and Embu. It is the northern town of Mwea sub-county; Mwea being the largest sub-county in Kirinyaga with the highest population. The elders of Kirinyaga met and agreed that the location of the headquarters be moved from Kerugoya to Kutus. A lot of consultations have been done and meetings held, and 90 per cent of the population has agreed that Kutus be named the headquarters. Naming Kutus as the headquarters of Kirinyaga will not change much because, as I had indicated, it was earlier referred to as Kerugoya-Kutus. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kutus will be the most convenient location, noting that it is not only a central place, but also situated along the busy road from Sagana, all the way to Kagio, passing through Kutus and Embu. It is also linked to Kerugoya by a C73 road, which is all weather. The road passes via Kerugoya and then leads to Karatina and Nyeri. The same road also connects other parts of northern Kenya. Therefore, in terms of communication, Kutus is centrally located. In terms of other social infrastructure, Kutus houses two universities; Kirinyaga Technical University, which used to be called Kirinyaga Technical Institute (KTI), and AHITI Ndomba, a constituent college of the University of Nairobi. Recently, it has attracted a population of 20,000 people as a result of the two universities. In this case, we require a centre which will be used not only as a catchment area, but a centre to provide services to both students and the population which will be attracted by the two important institutions. It is important to note that a number of commercial centers have also come up around Kutus. There are quite a number of banks, for example, the Family Bank, Fortune Bank, Cooperative Bank, Equity Bank and quite a number of other micro-finance The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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