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- Kisii records multiple victories as KICOSCA enters the third day
- Kisii Dominates Opening Day as KICOSCA Action Begins in Siaya
- Governor Simba Arati Releases Kisii County Squad for KICOSCA 2025 Games
- SNV Initiative to Transform Kenya’s Agriculture with Clean Energy Solutions
- Simba Hosts ASK Officials as Plans Begin to Relocate Southern Kenya Branch from Gusii Stadium
- Kisii to have AJS County Action Plan
- County Launches a Cold Storage Facility To Boost Value Addition
- Land clinics shade light on land matters
- Kisii county to be among 13 counties with a spatial plan
- Kisii County PLWDs get wheelchairs and blankets
- County procures garbage haulage tractors to deal with waste
- County to give lease certificates to informal settlers
- County stakeholders clean Daraja Mbili market.
- Kisii community asked to embrace AJS
- Kisii records reduction in maternal and neonatal mortality rate.
- Three Informal Settlements in Kisii County to be Planned and Surveyed for Issuance of Titles
- A relieve for patients with heart complications
- Simba appreciates development partners
- An avocado factory commissioned in Kisii
- Business community asked to remit taxes
- Gov Simba Inaugurates the Kisii County Bursary Board
- Shocking revelations from the pending bill report The Kisii County
- Relieve as PWDs get wheelchairs
- Simba vows to improve healthcare in the county
- Joy as Simba rolls out scholarship programme
- Staff audit report released
- County holds inaugural prayer breakfast meet
- IT’S OGEMBO MUNICIPALITY!
- I will deliver, assures Simba
- County conducts staff audit exercise
- New CECs sworn into Office
- Arati meets stakeholders ahead of public participation
- Kisii county, seven others, to benefit from a 24-dollar million water grant
- Governor Arati gives inaugural address before assembly
- New System to Curb Drug Theft
- DG, Dr. Monda on Kenya Power installations vandalism
- Governor vows to reorganize fleet management directorate
- H.E Hon. Paul Simba Arati Sworn In as Governor
- Farmers in Kisii reap from National Value Chain Support Programme
- Ongwae appoints a taskforce to investigate lynching of suspected witches
- Nyanchwa residents happy about move by government to upgrade estate road
- Kisii women urged to remain proactive in battle against Covid-19
- Completion of phase one of the Nyakoe modern market
- Governor Ongwae signs supplementary budget 2020/2121
- Ongwae assents Finance Bill 2020
- Governor Ongwae building superb infrastructural milestones in the health sector
- Kagwe applauds Ongwae for health sector milestones
- Governor Ongwae receives donated PPEs from Equity Group
- Team hails Kisii County preparedness in Covid 19 management
- Kazi mtaani launched in Kisii
- Governor distributes 54,000 face masks to Kisii bodaboda groups
- Governor Ongwae urges public to stop stigmatizing covid-19 patients, as county distributes 600,000 free face masks
- Speech by H.E. Hon. James E.O. Ongwae, CBS, EBS, OGW, governor, Kisii County during celebrations to mark the 57th Madaraka Day on 1st June 2020
- Ongwae announces waivers due to the global COVID-19
- Kisii County Weekly Weather Forecast – 3rd March – 9th March 2020
- USAID vows to support Kisii
- Farm groups get a Ksh. 55 funding
- Ongwae lays foundation stone for the construction of a model Resource Centre
- Kisii County Weekly Weather Forecast – Tuesday, 11th February to Monday, 17th February, 2020
- Kisii Insight Magazine – Kisii County dream and shared prosperity
- Speech by H.E. Hon. James E.O. Ongwae, CBS, EBS, OGW, governor, Kisii County during celebrations to mark Jamhuri day 2019 at the Gusii Stadium 12th December 2019
- Kisii among 12 counties listed for SUED funding
- Governor Ongwae assents to the Finance Bill 2019/2020
- Meteorological station to be built in Kisii
- Youths urged to embrace technical education
- Cases of rabies high in Kisii
- Governor Ongwae commits to development projects initiated in first term
- Governor in talks with Coffee research officials to plot crop revival in Kisii
- USAID conducting a study on the African Leafy Vegetables
- Kisii Banana Factory Launched
- Governor Ongwae officially opens 2019 Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK), Kisii branch Show
- Governor signs executive order forcing officers to cut eucalyptus along river banks
- Ongwae urges residents to register for huduma number for improved government services
- Kisii set to host the Kecoso sporting extravaganza
- Kisii Medical School set to kick off training in September
- Farmers to reap big as County supports banana value chain.
- Governor Ongwae appeals to ‘COCA COLA’ company to revive Kisii Bottlers factory
- Leaders welcome Minister’s new expansive roles
- County involves residents in LREB sensitisation drive
- Kisii Farmers to benefit in modern farming technology from Israel
- Ongwae, Kimemia urge government to embrace wind and solar energy investments to reduce cost of power
- Governor puts Staff on notice over performance
- Governor Ongwae in the US for the Annual East Africa Chamber of Commerce Trade Conference
- Governor James Ongwae signs into law the finance bill, 2018/2019
- County receives Sh 110million to strengthen banana value chain
- Governor Ongwae makes changes in the county executive
- Counties challenged to nurture and develop sports talent
- Governor Ongwae rolls out 4th bursary disbursement
- Kenya Police Sacco opens branch in Kisii
- Kisii to host the 6th edition of inter-county games
- South Mugirango residents endorse proposed sugar factory
- County government rolls out second phase of market lighting project
- County distributes water tanks to promote rainwater harvesting
- High court upholds the election of governor James Ongwae
- Governor Ongwae call for dialogue
- County to Partner with Kenya Literature Bureau to improve education
- Kisii High Court dismisses petition challenging Ongwae’s election
- Get Early Eye Screening to Avoid Preventable Blindness, Kisii Residents Told
- Statement on the collapse of a building in kisii town
- Governor James Ongwae outlines his development agenda in his second term in office.
- Water board pledges to improve Kisii water supply by September
- Spend more resources on prevention of corruption, governor Ongwae tells EACC
- County hires and deploys 270 vocational training tutors
- Chief justice reiterates judiciary’s commitment to support devolution
- County procures drugs worth KShs.91 million to boost healthcare
- County releases application forms for the kshs.135million bursary fund
- County commissions first tarmac road
- Statement on alarming reports about the hornworm
- I will invest more in environmental management, commits governor Ongwae
- County signs MOU with Kisii University to start school of medicine at Kisii hospital
- Give us a free, fair and credible election, Ongwae tells IEBC
- County announces measures to mitigate water scarcity
- Kisii County to set up a KShs.50million Disaster Management Academy
- Governor Ongwae flags team to ELASCA games
- Government to set up a Sh 60 million nitrogen plant in Kisii to support Artificial Insemination services
- NIC Bank opens branch in Kisii town
- KURA to rehabilitate 65km of bypasses and link roads in Kisii County
- Kisii county launches subsidized AI service
- Over Khs. 240 Million Bursaries disbursed to needy Kids
- Governor Ongwae injects Shs. 30m to start factory
- Kisii County unveils kshs.10billion budget
- Governor Ongwae asks chiefs to support county government officers for better service delivery
- Governor Ongwae calls for enhanced regulations to curb cyber crime
- State embarks on construction of daraja mbili market
- Kisii County development agenda on course, Governor Ongwae assures residents
- Construction of Youth Polytechnic Workshops
- Construction of ECDE Classrooms
- Governor Ongwae inspects projects in Nyaribari Chache Sub-County
- Governor Ongwae expresses his determination to support girl child education
- County first lady urges women to get screened for cervical cancer
- Suneka Airstrip Renovation
- Governor Ongwae has lauds the Red Cross Society of Kenya for the good work they do in the counties
- Embrace dialogue, governor ongwae tells nurses’ union
- Aga Khan development network to invest $1.4million Canadian dollars to improve healthcare in Kisii County
- President Kenyatta pledges to support revival of coffee in Kisii County
- Kisii County Government acquires 10 new ambulances to boost health services
- Chinese firm to invest sh 12 billion in Kisii new city
- Kisii signs Ksh 21b worth of investments in inaugural summit
- Governor Ongwae asks investors to support youthful entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs and Innovators Nomination Form
- Fiscal Strategy Paper 2016 Public Hearings
- Governor receives a consignment of books
- County buys drugs worth kshs.80million for health facilties
- Residents benefit from free medical camp ahead of lake region health conference
- Entrepreneurship Summit
- Governor Ongwae launches Kisii Entrepreneurship Summit 2016
- County to expand Gucha Sub County hospital and install modern equipment
- County to plant over 100,000 trees to promote environmental conservation
- Specialist doctors join hands to improve community healthcare
- Kisii county govt embarks on corruption risk assessment
- Youth challenged to register firms, vie for government contracts
- Kisii county seeks to collect a billion in revenue
- Governor Ongwae scoops gender and disability mainstreaming award
- Fire experts from Minnesota, USA to train Kisii disaster response unit
- Free Kisii off Gender Based Violence – Mrs Ongwae
- Kisii County Government to support empowerment initiated by women
- Emergency fund bill passed
- Kisii County First Lady Elizabeth Ongwae donates learning materials
- Israel government to support Kisii County in capacity building
- County to foot funeral expenses for victims of Ibencho lightning strike
- Governor James Ongwae assents three bills into law
- Implementation of Sh 1.6billion water supply project for Kisii set to begin
- Governor Ongwae calls on the Kenyan community living in South Korea to invest back home
- Governor Ongwae’s itinerary in South Korea
- Governor Ongwae with CORD leader Raila Odinga in Seoul, South Korea
- Public hearing/receipt of memoranda on finance bill 2015
- Invest in your county, governor Ongwae tells business community
- Kisii County signs MOU with JKUAT to spur economic growth
- Free surgery to correct obstetric fistula
- Hundreds of women set to benefit from free surgery to correct obstetric fistula
- Gusii Stadium to be ready for use by end of November, says Governor
- Governor Ongwae woos investors in Perth, Australia
- Governor Ongwae assents to four bills
- County boosts access to health services
- Public hearings on finance bill proposals for the Financial Year 2015/2016
- Kisii County Government seeks to improve the welfare of small scale traders in the Central Business district
- Angolan ambassador visits Kisii County
- County to establish greenhouse in each of the 45 wards
- Market operations in kisii county to be streamlined
- County to avail credit to spur entrepreneurship
- Sectoral Committee Members
- Statement on the auditor general’s report on counties audit
- Kisii County to be the first town in Africa to have an e-waste recycling plan
- Kisii County Government sets aside 25 million to cater for the needs of Persons with Disability.
- First lady quest to have girls in school
- County commissions Sh 32 million surgical complex at Nyamache hospita
- First lady Elizabeth Ongwae donates shoes to pupils
- First Lady Mentors Kisii County Youth
- Girl child education my priority – first lady Elizabeth Ongwae
- County government launches new ambulances to improve health services
- Governor Ongwae approves 2015/2016 financial year budget
- Kisii County Lions club donates mobility kits
- Governor Ongwae commissions a borehole in Tabaka ward
- Residents of Nyaribari Chache to benefit from a multi million lighting project initiated by Kisii county government
- The Mater Hospital screens children for rheumatic heart disease
- Governor Ongwae calls for increased efforts in prevention of HIV and AIDS in the County
- Kisii County gets Kshs.2billion loan for cancer treatment centre at the kisii hospital
- Bursary allocation set to increase in the next financial year(2015/2016)
- County improving health services
- Speech by H.E. hon. James E.O. Ongwae, CBS, EBS, OGW Governor, Kisii County Madaraka day celebrations at the Gusii stadium June 1st, 2015
- Hundreds benefit from free cancer and spine injury screening
- Kisii County to honour Heroes during 52nd Madaraka Day celebrations
- Governor Ongwae urges national government to devolve roads
- Land registry closed temporarily to pave way for digitization and reorganization
- Kisii County to revamp youth polytechnics
- Senators reject calls to revert back health docket
- County disburses kshs.135m in bursary fund to needy students
- H.E Governor James Ongwae holds talks with petitioners
- Governor hold talks with petitioners
- County working with partners to reduce avoidable blindness
- Free Breast Cancer Screening
- Unveilining of County Flag, Logo and Emblems
- Devolution and Planning cabinet secretary to launch Huduma Centre at Kisii
- Leaders from Kisii County ask the President and his deputy to ensure regional balance in state appointments
- Socio-Economic Atlas Launched in Kisii County
- Governor promises to improve health care services for the residents of Nyaribari Chache Sub County
- Bodies of Garissa University attack victims arrive at Gusii Stadium
- Kisii County Government to assist victims’ families and survivors
- Survivors of the Garissa University College Massacre arrive in Kisii
- County dialogue
- 2nd Devolution Annual Conference
- Governor launches Mount Kenya University Kisii Campus
- Mount Kenya University donates Ksh 500,000 towards the Kisii County bursary fund
- Kisii County leaders pledges unity
- KNUT lauds Governor Ongwae
- International Trade Investment Conference – October 2015
- Kisii County leaders meet over cancellation of exam
- Governor’s statement on the cancellation/withholding of the 2014 KCSE exam results
- Japanese government donates Sh8.4M for the construction and rehabilitation of Gesurura primary school
- Israel Government Sponsors Empowerment Projects in Kisii County
- Kisii County Government salutes the Japanese government for its contribution in the improvement of infrastructure at the KTRH
- Assembly Calendar
- Governor presides over the launch of the Kisii Town Motorcycle (Bodaboda) Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (Sacco)
- Renovation of Suneka Airtrip begins
- Award of certificates to women graduates from Cooperative College
- County Government inaugurates Land Management Board
Industrial Park
project overview
The establishment of the industrial park in Kisii is expected to open up a wide range of development projects in a remote area that has long been overlooked since independence. The new investment will attract improved infrastructure, better access roads, enhanced utilities, and increased economic activity that will uplift the surrounding communities.
economic benefit
In addition, the project will create both short-term and long-term job opportunities, offering meaningful employment for youths and women through construction work, skilled labour, support services, and entrepreneurship opportunities linked to the park’s operations.