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(i)
-Opportunities for trade: Still others move to the city in search of better business opportunities
-Social reasons: Some people move to Nairobi and other urban centers to live with their husbands, wives or other relatives.
-Nairobi is an educational center and people move to the city to exploit educational opportunities.
-Nairobi also has the best medical/health facilities in the country. Thus, others move to Nairobi to be attended medically.
-The notion that people in Nairobi are living a better life or enjoying makes people to move to Nairobi.
-Dry areas have very little one can do for a living so people move to Nairobi in search for better jobs especially those from Eastern, North Eastern and parts of Rift Valley.
-The jobs in rural areas are few and mostly manual. The educated youths avoid them and move to Nairobi and other urban centers in search of white-collar jobs.
-Pressure on land: There is pressure on land in agriculturally productive areas of Central, Western and Nyanza provinces. Lack of enough farmland pushes the people to move out to the city.
-Better employment opportunities: Many people move to Nairobi and other urban centers in search of jobs. They could also move in search of better paying jobs.
(ii)
-Decentralization of industries. Industries should be established in rural areas or areas away from Nairobi. This is already evident in the establishment of industries in Thika, Ruiru, Athi River, Mumias, Sony sugar companies among others.
-Encourage more economic activities in rural areas to discourage rural urban migration.
-Encourage cottage industries, which require less capital. This increases employment opportunities in rural areas.
-Modernizing and diversifying agriculture. With better returns from agriculture people migrate less to towns.
-Encourage labour intensive rural works/programmes e.g. soil conservation and afforestation which offer employment possibilities.
-Decentralization of government decision-making process and implementation to the districts, thus, making them centers of development.
(iii)
-Lack of urban planning resulting in mushrooming of poor and unlawful construction of slums and squatter settlements
-Encroachment on agricultural land as people seek for more land for settlement
-When there is an overflow of people into an urban area it puts stress on water supply since the town authorities are not able to plan for the increasing number of people each year
-It leads to pollution of air, land, water and noise
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