A month after a video of Billionaire businessman Jimmy Wanjigi asked Kenyans to give birth to more children so that the country can have bargaining power like other populous countries,Wundanyi MP has pegged the words to Residents of Taita Taveta and asked them to give birth to more children to save their sub counties from being scrapped.
According to the legislature , four sub counties may be abolished after the electoral body, the IEBC, made recommendations.
Wundanyi MP Danson Mwashako said the situation can be salvaged by having married couples adding another child into the family.
Mwashako said most women close the chapter of giving birth early. “I am not saying children should be born anyhow, but I think it’s time we allow ourselves to get babies up to the age of 49 years,” he said.
Taveta MP Naomi Shaaban said she will support efforts to ferry natives back to the county to be counted during the census
In Kenya, a census is conducted every 10 years by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). Kenya’s first census was conducted in 1948. This was 23 years after the colonial government appointed its first official statistician.
According to the last census carried out by KNBS in 2009, Kenya’s population stood at 38, 610,097 — a 10-million spike from the 1999 census that showed Kenya’s population to be 28 million.
In 2016, KNBS published a report on the projected population of Kenya and it stood at 45.8 million.
KNBS is currently preparing to carry out the eighth census in Kenya’s history, that will be held in August 2019.
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