Turf wars that delayed economic data report

L-R, Tobias Rasmussen - IMF representative African department, CAS Treasury Eric Simiyu Wafuko, CS Ukur Yatani,  and PS Saitoti Torome. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Before the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) moved to Nairobi’s Upper Hill, their offices were on a forlorn single-storey building along Lt Tumbo Avenue that looks like a high school’s administration block.

Herufi House - for long Kenya’s data-crunching epicentre - is squeezed and dwarfed by the towering edifices of the Treasury Building on one side and the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) headquarters on the other.