Juja

Juja is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 30 kilometres north of Nairobi between Thika and Ruiru, and the home of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Industries in the town include paper recycling, plastics, stationery and aluminium profiles, and it is the site of the Juja City Mall and the Nairobi Business Park. It lies under the Nairobi Metropolitan Authority envisaged in the Kenya Vision 2030 development programme. The name is said to come from Juja Farm, the 19,000 acres bought around 1900 by Lord William Northrop McMillan, who named it after two West African statues, Ju and Ja; the area had earlier been known as Weru wa Ndarugu. Juja Constituency has five wards, and the 2019 census counted 156,041 people.