The High Court of Kenya in Garissa has suppressed the 2019 Census results for Wajir, Mandera and Garissa counties.
The ruling was based on the case filed by Abdullahi Bashir Sheik and 24 others who accused the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics for overseeing the deviation.
They claimed that the November 2019 census was not a representation of the total population in the region.
However, KNBS in its defense stated how they visited various countries for benchmarking before carrying out the census exercises.
The ruling which was made by Justice John Onyiego dissolved the census results for Mandera North, Mandera South, Mandera East, Mandera West, Lafey and Banisa Sub-counties in Mandera.
The ruling also dissolved results of Balambala, Lagdera, Dadaab and Garissa townships in Garisaa and Eldas, Tarbaj, Wajir West, Wajir North and Wajir East in Wajir.
The ruling to dissolve the Census for the three Counties have paved way for a fresh round of census in all the affected sub-counties within one year from the date of judgement as ordered by the judge.
The court also further called on the residents of the affected counties to use the 200-census data until KNBS completes conducting fresh population statistics.
That’s an order of prohibition does and is hereby issued prohibiting the 2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents from relying on or in any other way from utilizing the disputed published 2019 KPHC results under Articles 215. 216 and 89.
The court directed.
