Saturday, March 12, 2011

Its Official, Mwatate will be Taita Taveta County Headquarters

Representatives of Taita Taveta County voted Mwatate as the headquarters of the newly created county. Mwatate beat the only other contender, Voi by 3 votes to 1 after all the constituencies were given one vote to decide the location of the county headquarters.

The representatives of the constituencies resorted to voting after efforts of achieving a consensus on the same bore no fruits. Mwatate is thus set for a major transformation after this development.

Below is a short profile of Mwatate obtained from wikipedia


Mwatate

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mwatate is a village in Taita-Taveta District in the southern side of the Taita Hills. It is the headquarters of the Mwatate administrative division of the district. Mwatate held the headquarters of the whole district during the British colonial rule from 1900 to 1912, when the headquarters moved to Voi. [1] Teita sisal estate, one of the largest sisal estates in world, is also located near the town of Mwatate.
Mwatate division has a total population of 56,365 [2]. The division has an urban population of 3,386, all of them are from Mwatate location [3].
Mwatate has a railway station along the branch line from Voi to Tanzania. However, passenger service along the track has been suspended years ago.
The village of Bura is located 10 kilometres west of Mwatate.

7 comments:

  1. "The representatives of the constituencies...." I am kindly requesting if we can know who the representatives were and what was the argument of each representative before they failed to reach a consensus. It will also be helpful if we can know why the contest was reduced to between Mwatate and Voi towns only. Other than that I am happy now that the antagonism is over and we have a headquarter for the county. May God Bless Taita-Taveta County!!

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  2. Good idea, Mwatate is kind of central to all areas in Taita Taveta. Now if only the road Voi to Taveta can be done...

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  3. Safi Sana! These are good news, I hope there will be developments now... The road, Hospitals, etc

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  4. I am from Voi constituency but Mwatate is the center so it was a very good idear to have it there.God bless our county.

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  5. This is Good news to Us Mwatate Residents. Kafwani nawecha nighidede agha malagho kwa wundenyi zaidi. Ela Dawida yose mwakaribisha Mwatate..

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  6. OK. But still need more info on who the delegates were.
    Have to admit had initially thought this was some sort of early April Fool's joke.
    Mlungu ubariki Isanga na Waisanga!

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