Overview
Murang’a County is revolutionizing local commerce by integrating modern markets with smart infrastructure initiatives. The county’s efforts focus on providing clean, organized, and secure market spaces while leveraging smart city innovations like improved connectivity, digital infrastructure, and enhanced accessibility. This approach empowers small businesses, supports agricultural produce sales, and boosts economic activity, fostering sustainable development and ensuring local traders thrive in a more competitive, technology-driven environment.
The Smart City Programme supports market development by integrating digital infrastructure, improving transport access, and enabling smoother business operations — creating a more connected, efficient, and vibrant trading environment.
The modern markets promote entrepreneurship, attract more customers, and create better trading conditions. Combined with smart city innovations, they help small businesses scale up and access wider markets.
Markets feature enhanced sanitation, weatherproof stalls, and safer, more organized spaces. Digital improvements, like better connectivity, also enable cashless transactions and faster communication between traders and suppliers.
Key markets have been constructed or upgraded across multiple constituencies, including Maragua, Kangema, Kigumo, Kandara, Mathioya, and Gatanga — ensuring equitable development and modern infrastructure across the county.
The newly constructed markets include Kambiti Market (Maragua Constituency), Ichichi Market and Kihoya Market (Kangema Constituency), Karuri Market and Mununga Market (Kigumo Constituency), Kandara Market (Kandara Constituency), Gitugi Market (Mathioya Constituency), Cabros Kihumbuini Market (Gatanga Constituency), and Kamune Market (Mathioya Constituency). Each market is designed with better amenities, improved access, and smarter infrastructure — ensuring traders and customers benefit from a safer, more connected, and thriving marketplace. This strategy aligns with the county’s broader Smart City vision, where technology enhances economic opportunities and quality of life.