HOMA BAY RESIDENTS WANT TO STOP CENSUS.

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BY NT CORRESPONDENT.

Five residents of Homa Bay have moved to court seeking to block census from being conducted in the county.

Michael Otieno, Evance Gor, John Kisiara, Antoney Tindi and Daniel Onyango want the court to prohibit the Homa-Bay County Commissioner, Homa-Bay County Statistics officer, Attorney General and Kenya Bureau of Statistics from carrying any activities with regard to next-months census exercise in County, pending hearing and determination of the case.

They are also seeking Commissioner and  Homa-Bay County Statistics officer be compelled to provide information on the request made on July 29, this year which was not responded to.

The five residents wants the court to quash the census exercise for being unconstitutional, null and void.

The petitioners argue that the census exercise injures the public to the extent that Kenyans will be forced to pay for idle exercise and the country has no justification at the moment and for a long time to come for embracing the highly accountable exercise like census.

They are apprehensive that the government acted outside the law and secretly to achieve undisclosed collateral purpose in the exercise.

They claim that unless the application is heard and determined the people of Homa-Bay will suffer a great loss as respondents will continue to abuse the rule of law.

The five claim that the administrative actions the respondents which have resulted to hiring of persons who did not apply for various positions and serving as public servants who are pensionable is unconstitutional, null and void.

“The recruitment exercise of persons to serve various positions should be within the ambit of strict adherence of the constitution and enabling laws in executing the exercise to the extent that persons who did not apply and do not have qualifications are listed as successful candidates”, say petitioners.

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