President dishes out new districts as polls near
Daily Nation, Kenya - Dec 15, 2007
President Mwai Kibaki’s intensified [election] campaigns in the last one month have increased the number of districts to 145.
The Head of State has nearly tripled the 57 districts he found in 2003 as he responds to public demand for closer administration.
A list from the Office of the President however still shows 137 Districts and four sub-districts.
President Kibaki, once a critic of the creation of districts and divisions by Former President Moi, directives which Internal Security minister John Michuki unsuccessfully challenged in court, has now come full circle.
In the two weeks the President has been in Western and Eastern provinces, eight districts have been born ...