The Garissa High Court has nullified the 2019 Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) census results for Mandera, Wajir, and Garissa counties, citing significant irregularities in the process.
Justice John Onyiengo has ordered the KNBS to conduct a fresh census within a year for the three counties.
The Court found that the KNBS failed to uphold fundamental data integrity standards during the 2019 census leading to inaccurate population figures for the affected areas.
As a result of the judgment, all constitutional bodies, including the IEBC, are barred from using the disputed census data for official purposes.
The ruling follows the consolidation of several petitions in the case of Hon Abdullahi Bashir Sheik and 24 others versus Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and four others.
Former Mandera governor Ali Roba who also filed a case challenging the 2019 census results listed the actual enumerated results as opposed to the figures published by KNBS as follows
The court was given a comparative analysis.