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Northern Kenya governors, MPs reject ‘cooked’ census figures

Northern Kenya leaders address the Media in Parliament yesterday on the just-released census data. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Two Northern Kenya governors and 24 MPs yesterday rejected the population census results as “cooked figures” and demanded that they be withdrawn immediately.

The leaders led by National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale claimed that the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) used pre-census mapping data instead of the August enumeration outcome.

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