Tharaka-Nithi County is one of the 47

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's former Eastern Province. The county has an area of 2609 km² and as of the 2019 census a population of 393,177. Tharaka-Nithi County is the home to the Chuka, Muthambi, Mwimbi and Tharaka sections of the Ameru (Meru) community. The people of Tharaka-Nithi County are now predominantly

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with the

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, the

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, and the Methodists being the predominant religious communities. The county consists of three

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: 60.

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, 61. Chuka/Igambang'ombe, 62. Tharaka.

History

In 1992 Meru District, sometimes called " Greater Meru" was broken up into four pieces, Meru Central, Meru North, Meru South and Tharaka; with Meru South (also known as Nithi District) combined with Tharaka into a new Tharaka-Nithi District. In 1998, the Tharaka Nithi District was split into two districts, Nithi and Tharaka, but the Kenya Supreme Court decision of 2009 declared that split unconstitutional. Subsequently, under the revised constitution of 2010, Tharaka-Nithi became a county.

Economy

Like Other Counties surrounding

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, the primary economic activities in Tharaka-Nithi County are tea and coffee planting, subsistence dairy farming, as well as keeping of other livestock such as goats and sheep.

Prominent personalities

Bernard Mate Bernard Mate (1922 – 6 January 1994) was a Kenyan politician and one of the first group of Africans to be elected to the Kenya Legislative Council (LegCo), the then legislative arm of government in the British Colony of Kenya, representing ...

– The county's most notable "son". He was an active politician in Kenya's independence struggle, who resided in Majira, near Chogoria. He represented Central in the LegCo of 1957, as well as being a member of parliament in the 1960s and 1970s. *

Muthomi Njuki Onesmus Muthomi Njuki is a Kenyan politician. He is the second and Incumbent Governor of Tharaka Nithi County in Kenya after being elected on the UDA ticket in the 2022 Kenyan general election. Before being elected Governor, he served as the Ch ...

– Second and Incumbent Governor * Prof. Kindiki A. Kithure- First Senator and The current Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration * Dr. Mzalendo Kibunjia – Director General,

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and Founding Chairman

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* James Ngugi – Entrepreneur and economist *

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– Renowned media personality *

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– First Deejay from Tharaka Nithi and renowned media personality *Wilfred Murungi – Entrepreneur and philanthropist.Founder of Mastermind tobacco (Kenya) limited *Mugiira Nthiga - Scientist(chemist), consultant

References

External links

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Kenya AdminLevels 1-4
(.pdf)
Muthomi Njuki Elected Governor – Tharaka Nithi County 2017
{{Authority control Counties of Kenya

History

Economy

Prominent personalities

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