The government will erect at least three roadblocks along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway on the census night to ensure travellers are enumerated.

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Specialized enumerators will flag down every vehicle on the busy highway to capture details of travellers and drivers.

According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), Makueni has 2986 enumerators, 496 content supervisors and 54 ICT officers, who will enumerate travellers along this highway.

Makueni County Commissioner Maalim Mohammed said the barriers will be at three different towns during the exercise set to happen on August 24/25.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in Makueni, Maalim revealed that they had settled on Salama, Emali and Mtito-Andei to be ideal towns to erect the roadblocks.

“There will be roadblocks so that even truck drivers who do transportation along the highway at night have their details captured together with other travellers,” Maalim said.

On matters of security, Maalim said that they will be deploying police officers to accompany the enumerators who will be covering areas prone to human-wildlife conflict.

Bar owners have been directed to close their businesses at 6 pm and if anyone wishes to drink that night, they have been advised to have ‘take away’.

Maalim concluded that whoever will defy this government directive will be arrested.