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Administrative hurdle to extra districts in Kisii

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Published on Monday, 04 June 2007 01:18
The two new districts given in Gusiiland are a welcome gesture given the high density of population and attendant socio-economic problems, which the three DCs must have found difficult to handle effectively. The government move, therefore, came at the most opportune time.

However, the Provincial Administration, especially in Kisii Central District, has turned out to be a stumbling block. During a meeting at Kisii Municipal Hall on January 23, to decide on how the district should be carved out of the existing three, one administrator completely blocked any progressive suggestions.

Obviously, the meeting ended in chaos, and therefore indecisively. However, many good proposals were presented. But one, which we consider as most viable and least controversial, though not a blueprint, was the one that could create Nyamira, Manga, Nyanturago, Gucha and Nyachenge districts. Each would have two constituencies namely; North and West Mugirango, Kitutu Chache and Masaba, Nyaribari Chache and Masaba, Bobasi and Bomachoge, and South Mugirango and Bonchari respectively.

Each of the first three proposed districts used to be large administrative locations with headquarters at Nyamira, Manga and Nyanturago in that order and therefore would attract little clan animosity.

Bobasi and Bomachoge, on the one hand, and South Mugirango and Bonchari on the other, used to be a constituency and as such have affinities which they can enjoy in the proposed new order of things. The questions of where these plans leave Kisii town and Borabu Division are important ones. Yet the town can still play its important role as the commercial hub of the region as well an ever expanding municipality.It also stands out as the strongest candidate as the headquarters of an emergent province in the region. The inhabitants of Borabu can either decide to join any of the three districts which border it or be divided among those districts. This and other proposals, we contend, should be given due consideration and a solution found to this imbroglio.