This archive report was first published on 26 August 2019.
On August 25, 2019, a couple in Kisumu, Richard Ochieng and his wife Florence Adeka, were arraigned in court for blocking national census enumerators from accessing their home in Obunga estate.
The couple denied the charges, claiming it was difficult for them to have fought off more than 12 people and denied them access into their house.
They also pleaded for leniency, stating that they are unemployed and their five children depend on them for survival.
The couple was released on a cash bail of 20,000 shillings each or a bond of 30,000 with a similar surety.
According to reports, this is just one amongst numerous ugly incidents that have occurred in the region since the commencement of the national census exercise on August 24, 2019.
Another enumerator was gang-raped by several youths in Maseno, while another escaped narrowly after being attacked by villagers in Homabay county on the account that she was not a native of the area.
The case will be heard on September 17, 2019.
