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Riruta was the name for all the area west of Kagishu stream including Kawangware all the way to the Kabiria.

When Kawangware (literally, the place (diminutive) of the man of quarry (the bird) - then a small dusty village; grew to have a shopping centre, the area on the south of Naivasha Road and around the Holy Ghost Mission (HGM - the benefactors of the Catholic church and todays Precious Blood School) was increasingly referred to as Riruta. When the area further south of Naivasha Road started opening up - the name Riruta Satellite became more and more common.

One theory suggest that there was a project by an organisation - and had an outpost, a satellite of the project. No space exploration here.

Riruta was for a long time the ward/location the name for this area but the building of Riruta Satellite Primary School and the Kenya Bus Service Route number 4 in the early seventies popularised the name.

The name Riruta is thought to have some maasai origin and by time corrupted.