Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano has called for classification of arid parts of Ndaragwa constituency in Nyandarua County as hardship areas during current revision of zones in that status.

Miano pointed out that when she was cabinet secretary for arid and semi-arid regions, she supported the push to classify some parts of Ndaragwa to be classified as arid and semi-arid, therefore hardship.

For a long time, there has been push for Ndaragwa areas that are arid and semi-arid to be classified as hardship zone to stop teachers and other civil servants from migrating to neighbouring Laikipia County to benefit from hardship allowances.

The call is due to large part of Nyandarua North Sub-County has climatically conditions similar to neighbouring areas in Laikipia County where government employees enjoy hardship allowances.

On enhancing security in the area, CS Miano observed that the Inspector General of police Douglas Kanja had promised to post officers to a police post that is nearing completion in Kihara location.

“Although Kiahara location is generally secure, the police post was necessitated by the fact that the residents travel distances to get police services,” said Miano.

The cabinet secretary was speaking when she hosted neighbours in her parents’ rural home in Kihara village in Ndaragwa constituency to mark Mother’s Day. During the occasion Miano used the day to empower several youth and women groups while the residents highlighted areas they would like addressed, mainly in education, water and roads sectors.

She revealed that soon the network of tarmacked roads in the Constituency will be increased as contractors are expected to start work on identified roads. 

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Nyawira said village elders, despite not being salaried, they used own resources to coordinate security matters in their jurisdiction hence called for their facilitation while Kagwe urged the cabinet secretary to push for upgrading of Kiamaiko-Kihara-81-Subuko Road to bitumen to open more rural areas of Ndaragwa.

He added that through assistance of the cabinet secretary, a maternity wing has been built at the Ndaragwa health centre at a cost of Sh150 million.

• A Tell Media / KNA report /By Kimani Tirus and Jecida Wambui