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    "content": "(Mr. Oparanya): Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to give a Ministerial Statement. Now, that you are the current Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not know how you will behave. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Statement was sought by Dr. Khalwale, the Member of Parliament for Ikolomani and he wanted me to clarify the final and official position of the population of this country. He also wanted me to also give reasons that informed the initial nullification of the census results in the Turkana, Wajir and Mandera counties. Finally, he wanted me to clarify how this was going to impact on the planning for development in the country, especially with regard to the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), the creation of 80 new constituencies, the allocation of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money and other devolved resources. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the House is aware, the 2009 population and housing census preliminary results were released on 31st August, 2010 in a set of four volumes. These results were released in line with the United Nations (UN) principles and recommendations, whose professional ethics dictate that population figures from a census as enumerated and released gave a total population of Kenya as 38,610,097 people. On the occasion, I also indicated that the results for eight districts of Turkana, Wajir and Mandera counties had anomalies and had to be cancelled. Since the release of the results, further analysis has been carried out to correct coverage and content errors for the whole country, including areas where results were cancelled."
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