Malaba Municipality
Overview
Malaba Municipality is the newest municipality in Busia County created in line with the Urban Areas and Cities Act, 2011 with an intention to provide better services and distribute county resource to the residents. Upon satisfying the criteria needed to be classified as a municipality and in exercising the powers conferred in section 9(1) of the Urban Areas and Cities Act 2011 augmented by section 72 of the Interpretations and General Provisions Act (Chapter 2) and all other enabling provisions of law, the governor for Busia County Government, His Excellency Hon Sospeter Odeke Ojaamog granted Malaba Municipality the Municipal charter on 27th March 2020. The municipality has a board duly constituted as per the Act and the Municipal Manager to operationalize its activities. The board members were gazetted on 14th November 2023
Our Vision:
is to expedite excellence in Land Management and Provision of Excellent, Affordable and Quality Housing for sustainable development.
Our Mission:
is to facilitate improvement of livelihoods of Kenyans through efficient administration, equitable access, secure tenure, sustainable management of land resource and access to adequate housing.
Mandate
Our mandate is to administer and manage the municipality of Busia as per the municipality charter and urban areas and cities act.
The Municipality plays a major functional role as a gateway to Uganda and the central African countries. It is a major Commercial hub on this apart of the county. These Commercial activities include: - Hotels, Wholesale & Retail shops, Banks, Clearing and Forwarding offices. There are various Institutions both Public and Private – within Town ,There are small scale industrial activities such as bakeries, juakali among others.