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Local leaders blame alcohol for low population growth in Mt Kenya

President Uhuru Kenyatta receives the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census results from Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani at State House, Nairobi on November 4, 2019. [File, Standard]

The slow population growth in the last ten years within Mt Kenya region has been attributed to the uncontrolled consumption of illicit liquor by both young and elderly men in the region. 

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