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Can’t, won’t open North Eastern census servers- Government

Census enumerator Mercy Cherono marks a house in Endebes, TransNzoia County. [Collins Kweyu/Standard]

A scenario similar to the 2017 presidential election petition is playing out at the High Court with a State agency prevaricating on a court order granting 25 petitioners from Wajir, Mandera and Garissa access to its census servers.

And the same agency won’t provide the census evidence contained in tablets used to conduct the exercise in the three counties because they have been disposed, donated to foreign countries, or lent out to other government agencies after the data the petitioners are seeking was erased.

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