The Nakuru County is the pre-historic manhood home ever since a million years ago. For about 3500 years ago, there was a village with temporally homes and about one thousand population. This village was located about 5kms away from the current Nakuru town. In the days of colonial, white settlers were attracted to this area and began their agricultural activities. Nakuru came to be the Centre of industrial and trades activities because of the railway that connected Nakuru and Uganda.
During the time of independence (1963), it was found necessary to build a county Hall with offices for better control of the technical and new administrative organization. The new County was built including the council chamber and was officially opened by the His Excellency Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of the republic of Kenya, on 23rd October 1967. The Central Rift Council included only two administrative districts i.e. Baringo Districts and Nakuru Districts. The Council comprised under its government the Area Councils of Molo, Nakuru, Londiani, South Baringo and North Baringo. The area had a population of 400,000 people of diverse ethnic groups and occupied an area of about 7000sq miles. The area was under the regional system of administrative (Majimbo).
In 1974, the Central Rift Council was disbanded and another County Council was formed which currently Nakuru County. The county administrative set-up is like other local authorities organization with 50 wards represented by 50 elected councilors and 19 nominated councilors, the council chairperson and a council vice chairperson.
