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Poverty is running riot in Kenya despite introduction of devolution. Rural areas are hardest hit, hence the ceaseless rural-urban migration.
A recent survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Integrated Household Budget had it that 16.4 million out of 45 million Kenyans were living in abject poverty in 2015-16, where some 40.1 per cent of them (11.4 million) lived in rural areas as opposed to 27.5 per cent (0.9 million) in urban centres.
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