President Uhuru is Wednesday expected to confer City Status on Nakuru.
Plans are complete for the event to start this 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 the capacity to generate sufficient revenue to sustain operations.
*This article was written by Henry Kimoli for Uzalendo News. Email: uzalendonews24@gmail.com to submit your story.
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