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Quality data, low costs a priority for KNBS boss

From left: KNBS outgoing Director-General Zachary Mwangi, Chairman Peter Kiguta and incoming boss Macdonald Obudho during the handover ceremony, yesterday. [Stafford Ondego]

The new national statistician, MacDonald Obudho, has committed to firm up data collection and cut costs.

Obudho took over from Zachary Mwangi yesterday as the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) director-general.

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