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Uneasy calm for 4.5m Kenyans with no toilet facilities in over ten counties

One of the toilets used by police officers at Kigumo police station. A survey has shown one in every ten Kenyans has no toilet. [File, Standard]

Nearly one in every ten Kenyans has no toilet and is forced to find a bush or field to relieve themselves, a new survey has shown.

The Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS), 2015/16 which was released this week shows that almost half of the counties are below the national average, with some counties having more than 70 per cent of their populations without a toilet.

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