Hola

Hola, additionally called Galole, is a small city in Kenya at the Tana River with a population of 6,932. Hola is the capital of the Tana River County. It is a busy marketplace town and a portal to Garissa County and the previous North Eastern Province by means of local canoe ferry throughout the Tana River. In addition to the Hola agricultural irrigation scheme, there is a District Hospital and a Kenya Prisons facility placed in the town. After the brand new election, the city emerge as the headquarters of the Tana River County. The office of the governor is placed in Hola city. The county has 3 constituencies, Bura, Galole and Garsen.

The county has some of elected officers particularly Governor, senator, women representative, deputy governor and three contributors of parliament. The county also has 15 ward representatives. Hola was the web site of a detention camp, the area of the Hola bloodbath in 1959. Eleven Mau Mau detainees have been clubbed to loss of life with the aid of prison wardens hired by way of the British. The victims have been Mau Mau freedom combatants being held within the camp as a part of Operation Anvil. After the Hola massacre the call of Hola was changed to Galole by the colonial government so that this episode would be forgotten.