Over the last five years, the County government has gone beyond its call of duty to ensure Embu residents enjoy improved access to both preventive and curative health services that are easily accessible and affordable. To this end, the County made a conscious decision to allocate about one third of the entire county budget [...]
Governor Martin Wambora’s plans to transform Embu into a 24 hour economy has been realised after the county government installed floodlights in 39 townships spread in the region. Embu was among the eight counties which were honoured with Governor’s Awards of Excellence in various sectors of development in 2015. An interesting phenomenon lights up whenever [...]
Motorable roads are a prerequisite to fast tracking development. Bearing this in Mind, Governor Wambora has embarked on an ambitious plan to tarmac 100km of roads by 2017 using modern cost-cutting technology. The county government has started with the 12.2km Embu-Kibugu road which is under construction using Malaysian probase technology. The county has rehabilitated [...]
The ECDE (Nursery schools) and youth polytechnics are functions of the County Government. Embu County has made tremendous progress in these sectors. Since the employment of the 483 ECDE teachers, the pupils’ enrolment in ECDE centres has so far increased by 15 percent. As for the Vocational Training Centres, with effect from July 2015, Embu [...]
