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Where is Karuri Ward?

 Karuri Ward is an area within Kiambaa Sub-county of Kiambu County in Kenya. 
Karuri Ward is one of five wards that make up the Kiambaa Sub-county or constituency. The others are Kihara Ward, Muchatha Ward, Ndenderu Ward and Cianda Ward. Karuri is the most populous of the 5 with a population of 38,000 residents.

Its name was derived from the name of a famous elder from Murang’a County called Karuri wa Gakure who lived in the 18th century. It is said that, men of his time used to pass through this area from their home in the highlands of Mt. Kenya on their way to Masai land to purchase livestock around 1866 - 1890. He had marked a place where they used to stop over on their long journey and they eventually made it a meeting point where the farming traders would come from the east with their farm produce and meet the pastrolists from the west where they would exchange their produce with livestock in barter trade. The place was named after him. Karuri is only 15km from the capital city Nairobi.


Karuri is a place you will love to live.

A Ward is the smallest elective division of a county in the County government system and is represented by a member of the County assembly(MCA) otherwise called a Ward Representative.

Karuri Ward is a nice place. Swarming with lots of lovely people. You will enjoy every moment you are within its boundaries. But you wont realize this until you have spent some time in the place. Outside there, you will get conflicting and negative sentiments about Karuri. But this emanates from a period in the past when some bad boys had emerged to ruin our image. They had made the place really insecure with the help of criminals from Nairobi and surrounding towns. Cases of muggings, robbery and even murder were taking place every too often that the area made headlines in major National newspapers. But that is all gone now. The groups have disappeared after government cracked down on them. Though peace have returned the past insecurity reports will take time to fade from outsiders memories.

Where to Shop

Despite the usual problems that dog every other area in our country, including high rates of youth unemployment, there is generally a good environment of peace and order. Small businesses flourish through out its many shopping centers and within the villages. You can hardly walk for a few meters without finding a place to purchase basic items like food or other home utilities.

At the Center of Karuri Ward you will find a large Market where anything and everything is traded from fresh farm foods, designer clothes and second hands, home appliances and merchandise.

Education for your Children.

The Ward has 5 public primary schools an 6 private ones. It also has 5 public secondary schools and 2 private. Resident's health is taken care of by a level 4 hospital called Karuri Health Center and many pharmacy shops within the town center.

Water Services

A company called Karuri Water caters for the water needs of area residents through a piped system to local homesteads and in a number of easy to access selling points. There is also two rivers that transverse the wards including a dam called Ite.

Where to Stay

Many well off residents have build residential houses which they rent at quite fare rates. The houses rage from top class to middle level\ and the low income levels. Getting a place to settle is no big deal depending on the class you choose, within the main Banana Town or in the villages.

Accessibility.

The entire Ward is easily accessible through a wide network of motorable roads of which the main ones are tarmacked. The County government of Kiambu within which the Ward falls is working on many of the village access roads which are in a bad state to make them more accessible using gravel and murram.

God loving people

Karuri Ward is dominated by people of Christian faith. The residents are highly religious going by its record 41 churches that dot every neighborhood. But the main ones are 3 Catholic and 9 Anglican churches respectively.

The place have admittedly lagged behind in social issues due to lack of amenities including community halls and standard playgrounds. However, the area boasts of 2 main football teams, Karuri Sportiff and Kiambaa Sharp shooters both of which play in Provincial leagues and 10 other fringe clubs of young men and women. Efforts to build a social Hall are at advanced stages.

The current area Member of County Assembly (MCA) is Hon. Martin Njoroge Marjo.