Economic Freedom Party dismisses Mandera Census figures

President Uhuru Kenyatta receives the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census results from Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani at State House, Nairobi.
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He described the decline in population from 1.02 million to 867,457 as "unbelievable". "We as leaders and people of Mandera do not take these figures as a true reflection of the population of Mandera," he said. Abey went onn that there has been no catastrophe or any drastic population control mechanism adopted in Mandera for the last 10 years to occasion "this unusual and stochastic variable." He claimed there was a deliberate effort to disenfranchise the locals for political and economic reasons. "The question that begs is why are some people ill-intent to disenfranchise the people of Mandera every year of population Census?"Do not miss out on the latest news. Join the Standard Digital Telegram channel HERE.