Census ought to make fair representation possible

The recently released census results indicate that our population has grown by about ten million since the last time a national census was conducted almost a decade ago in 2010. Today, Kenya is a nation of about 47.5 million people, meaning our population grew by over one quarter in the past decade.

With that kind of growth comes many challenges - adjusting the labour market to suit the needs of increasingly educated youths, ensuring that modern infrastructure allows for smooth trade and commerce, developing more green energy plants so that we do not put more strain than is necessary on the environment, and so on.