Balambala MP Abdi Shurie has written to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics over what he termed as manipulated 2019 census results. The letter claims that the results were manipulated to achieve a well documented campaign to delegitimize and cancel 2009 census results for the constituencies in the three counties of Garissa, Wajir and Mandera. Detailing confrontations between North Eastern counties and the state over disputed 2009 census results, the MP said KNBS mounted deliberate efforts and unlawfully lowered the census figures for the three counties. After the 2019 census results were released, North Eastern leaders among them National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and the governors of Wajir, Mandera and Garissa strongly disputed the numbers. The letter, according to a close confidant of the MP, is in preparation for a court battle in the coming months.

Source: The Star December 29, 2019 18:56 UTC