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Leaders want census halted in Tana River over skewed hiring

Tana River Woman Rep Rehema Hassan Wailwana tribe to be given code and not referred to others. [Courtesy]

Civil society group leaders in Tana River County have asked the National government to address alleged irregularities in recruitment of enumerators and other support official for the August population census before tconducting the the exercise.

The groups also claimed there is credible fear that people could be imported into the county to inflate or alter the local population during the exercise.

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