The county had a population of 800,000 at the 2019 Census, and a land area of about 44,753km2 (17,279sqmi).[2] The majority of the population in Garissa County is of Somali ethnic background. This includes subgroups like the Ogaden, Degodia, Ajuran, and others. There are also smaller populations of other ethnic groups.[2]
Administrative and political units
Political leadership
Nathif Jama Adam was elected as the pioneer governor of Garissa in March 2013. Ali Bunow Korane became the second governor in 2017 however Nathif was re-elected in 2022.[3][4] Nathif is currently deputised by Abdi Dagane Muhumed.[5]
Every County Government in Kenya has a County Executive Committee (CEC) who are persons the Governor appoints, with the approval of the assembly. The CEC implements and coordinates the development projects of the County. The committee also implements the laws the County Assembly passes and ensures compliance from the various county departments. Below is a list of the current CECs of Garissa County:[8]
County Affairs, Public Service & Intergovernmental Relations
Ebla Minhaj
Education, Information & ICT
Ahmednadhir Omar
Health & Sanitation
Hawa Abdi
Culture, Gender, Youth & Sports
Mohamed Suleiman
Trade, Investments & Enterprise Development
Nasir Mohamed
Roads, Transport & Public Works
Mohamed Hussein
Lands, Physical Planning & Urban Development
Khadija Mohamed
County Attorney
Administrative units
Garissa County has 6 constituencies.[9][10] The below is the list of all Constituencies and the current elected Member of Parliament (MP) for each constituency:[11]
Garissa County is further subdivided into 30 electoral wards. Each ward is represented by a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) or also known as Ward Representative whose main roles are legislation, representation, and oversight.[12][13] The current speaker of the County Assembly is Abdi Idle Gure.[14]
The list below shows all the wards of the county and the current elected MCA for each Ward:[15]
Garissa county had a total population of 841,353 persons of which 458,975 were males, 382,344 females and 34 intersex person. There was a total of 141,394 household with an average size of 5.9 persons per house hold. It has a population density of 19 persons per square kilometre based on the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census.[16]
Distribution of Population, Land Area and Population Density by Sub-County
The county has 347 ECD centres, 224 primary schools, 41 secondary schools, 2 teachers training colleges and 2 public universities.
39.7 per cent of the population can read and write and 57.9 cannot read and write. There is an average of 8.2 per cent literacy level and 74 per cent are illiterate.[19]
HIV/ADS is at the 1 percentage as compared to the national prevalent rate of 5.6 percentage.[21]
Transport and communication
A total of 2,700.6km is classified as road network coverage comprising 1,637.84km under county government and 1,062.76km under national government. Of the total road network 420km is covered by gravelled surface, 2,245.1km earth surface and .5km of bitumen surface.[19]
There are 6 postal services with 2,600 installed letter boxes, 2,496 rented letter boxes, and 104 vacant letter boxes.[22]
Trade and commerce
The main crops grown are maize, greengrams, sorghum, rice, cowpeas, bananas, mangoes, pawpaw, water melon, tomatoes, capsicum and onions. Farmers have an average size of 1.5 hectares for small scale and 20 hectares for large scale. cattle (boran), goats (galla), sheep (black headed Persian) and camel (dromedary one humped) are kept as the main livestock for producing key products of meat, milk, hides and skins.[22][21]
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