Report: Most Eldoret residents want town given to city status
By Winstone.Chiseremi, April 6, 2023About 93 per cent of Eldoret town residents want it to be elevated from Municipality to a city, according to a report by a 12-member ad hoc committee formed to collect views from the public.
The committee chaired by Willy Kenei presented its final report to area Governor Jonathan Bii on Tuesday. Speaking during the handing over ceremony held at an Eldoret hotel, Kenei said majority of the residents vouched for the approval of the town whose current population stands at more than 250,000 to be a city status.
“We went around the six sub counties collecting views and the majority of the residents said they want Eldoret town to be elevated to a city status citing the many opportunities they were looking forward to benefit in terms of infrastructures and foreign and local investors,” said Kenei.
He said that among the stakeholders who made their views before the ad hoc committee included, traders, and people living with disability, the professionals, the county assembly, the county executive and the business community.
Kenei however, said that a section of the local residents were opposed to the town being elevated to city status while describing their numbers as insignificant to their final report.
While receiving the final report, the governor said that he would move with speed and transit the same to the Count Assembly to discuss the report before forwarding it to the Senate Devolution and Intergovernmental Relation committee.