About Nyamira County

Nyamira County is a county in the former Nyanza Province of Kenya. It was formerly part of Kisii County when Kisii County was a district, and is sometimes called North Kisii County. It is one of the counties in the Lake region economic cluster.

It borders Kisii, Homabay, Kericho and Bomet Counties. Nyamira town is the largest and currently the headquarter of the county and harbours all the county offices.

The county has 5 subcounties namely: Nyamira South, Nyamira North, Borabu, Masaba North and Manga sub counties.

Further, the county is divided into 20 wards namely: Bogichora, Bosamaro, Bonyamatuta, Township, Bokeira, Bomwagamo, Ekerenyo, Magwagwa, Itibo, Kiabonyoru, Esise, Mekenene, Nyansiongo, Rigoma, Gachuba, Gesima, Magombo, Kemera and Manga Wards.


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Executive Message

I salute the people of Nyamira and the Nation of Kenya. And welcome you to Nyamira County. ‘A place to belong’.

The county has unique features, challenges and opportunities which we vowed to take up and tackle.  Mohatma Gandhi Said “the greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. 

Our resolve remains to bring together all the available resources, identify the opportunities and purposefully take an integrated approach to have all policies programmes and activities in the county aligned towards raising the welfare and sustainable quality of life and healing our society, people and ecosystems.

The county system of governance has given us an opportunity to serve the people at the local level and I confess it is a humbling experience.

Government formation enabled me realize the great human resource the county has, I call on all who expressed desire to serve the county in various capacities but were unsuccessful to join us in the develop

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