AHITI (ANIMAL HEALTH & INDUSTRY TRAINING INSTITUTE) - NYAHURURU - Kenya

Animal Health Industry Training Institute (AHITI) Nyahururu was started on the land currently occupied by Laikipia University in 1979. The Institute took over from the phased out Large Scale Farm Managers Training College.

The Government of Kenya acknowledged the great need for frontline personnel in the Livestock Sub-sector while the demand for managers of large scale farms was diminishing due to land subdivision. AHITI Nyahururu was started as the second Institute to AHITI Kabete to train Veterinary Paraprofessionals for the directorate of Veterinary Services. After the Structural Adjustments policies of 1986, the Institute continued to train the frontline personnel for the Livestock Subsector in general.

The first In-take of 160 students to take a two year rigorous training in  

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Animal Health was done in 1979. Training continued at the same facility until February 1988 when through a Presidential Directive, Laikipia Teachers College was opened in the same premises to train Diploma in Education. After one year, the Diploma Teachers Training College was handed over to Egerton University as a constituent College to train Degree and Diploma in Education and was renamed Laikipia Campus.