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Kenyan Census 2009: Where's the credibility? |
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Written by Collins Mbalo
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
I was finally counted yesterday in the 2009 Kenya National Census exercise that begun on Monday 24 July, 2009 at 6.00 p.m and set to continue till the end of this month. However, the enumerator did not find me at home and had to rely on the erroneous data supplied by my house help.
The credibility of the census data will be in question especially as the Government enumerators were unable to take advantage of Tuesday 25th August, 2009 which was a public holiday intended for that purpose. I still know many of my colleagues who are yet to be counted and have now resumed normal working hours: dawn to dusk. So is the Kenya National Census 2009 going to be a success? Hardly and what is that question about tribe coming so shortly after 2008 post election violence that was based on ethnicity? very suspect! We never seem to learn our lessons. In Rwanda they removed the tribe section from Identification cards following the Rwanda Genocide as such data can do more harm than good in a highly polarised society (you can see the Mau Forest issue and the tribal aspect it has taken).
It would have been better for the safety and stability of the Republic to totally omit that section under the principle of abundant countenalle"extreme caution" since in the wrong hands such data can prove dangerous! |
Collins Mbalo |
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| Collins Mbalo blogs at the Nairobian's Perspective ! where he writes on everything from economics, social and political issues in Kenya.
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