Tharaka Nithi County Leaders And The Judiciary Disagree On The Location Of New Court.

The county leaders have been engaging in discussions on where the High Court set to be constructed will be located. The Judiciary and some county leaders have been unable to settle on one location between chuka town and at kathwana where the county headquarters are being constructed.

The county governor Samuel Ragwa and Senator Kithure Kindiki, are for the opinion that the court be built at Kathwana on an argument that there is enough land and and its a central location of the whole County. The judiciary on the other hand, the judiciary said that the court should be located at Chuka town.

Both the governor and the senator have fowarded the matter to the chief justice and he has said that the matter will be looked at soon. These two also want the county and government offices be located at Kathwana. Kathwana is a rural place where there is poor infrastructure and the plce cannot be accessed from Embu-Meru highway in rainy seasons.

Governor Samuel Ragwa has also blamed some county officials and Government leaders for going against there decision to locate major offices at Kathwana. It should be remembered that there was a rejection of the county headquarters being located at Kathwana.