Plans are underway to develop the famous Subukia Shrine that is run by the Nakuru County Catholic Diocese with the aim of it becoming a major tourist attraction site in the County.
This was hinted on Wednesday by the Nakuru County Director of Environment, Kiogora Murithi, who also is a committee member of the Nakuru Catholic Diocece Management Board when he talked to this writer at the Diocese offices after attending a management meeting.
Kiogora said that the county government’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Tourism had identified Subukia shrine as one of the local potential major tourism sites to be developed to attract both domestic and foreign tourists in the county.
“Subukia Shrine has been earmarked as one of the key tourist sites in the county that the county government seeks to develop to become a major tourist attraction site in the county. Already, we have included it in the new website that lists our local major tourist sites and we are consulting widely on ways of expanding its capacity as a modern tourist attraction site, apart from being a religious oriented one,’’ said Kiogora.
He added that already plans were underway to tarmac the four kilometer road off the main Subukia-Nyahururu highway that leads to the site that attracts thousands of catholic pilgrims from across the world annually.