The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) on Friday, January 31, differed with a recent court ruling cancelling the 2019 census results in Wajir, Mandera, and Garissa counties and the directive to conduct a fresh census in one year, terming it a 'herculean' task. While speaking to Citizen TV, KNBS Director General Macdonald George Obudho stated that conducting the census takes four years to plan besides the massive amount of resources required to conduct the census.
According to him, this makes the practicality of heeding the order nearly impossible.
The bureau's compliance with the court's order is further compounded by the fact that the process of the enumeration of the population, which happens every ten years, is supposed to kick off this year, four years before the actual census.
The process begins with the drafting of a census project proposal, which has to be subjected to thorough scrutiny before it is presented to the Treasury for budgetary approval.
