Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has urged the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KBS) to conduct a credible census.
Speaking on Friday to members of the press, just hours to the once in a decade exercise, the former vice president recounted a past census that was marred by claims of numbers being doctored.
"When it was said that the census be repeated in certain places there was controversy. Politicians from those places started issuing threats to the enumerators (Aliposema sehemu hizo ni lazima zirudiwe utata ukaingia. Na hata wanasiasa kutoka sehemu hizi wengine wakaanza kuto a vitisho na kuanza kusema kwamba ikiwa wale enumerators watarudi kule kujaribu kurekebisha mahali kuna makosa security yao ita kuwa hatarini), " the ANC leader said.
Mudavadi's intervention comes in the wake of a strong warning from Interior and Coordination of National Government Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i to politicians intent on tampering with the census.
Matiang'i said that he had received intelligence that certain politicians were asking people to move so as to be counted in certain places.
The counting exercise is expected to kick off Saturday evening with the government calling for all social places to be closed so as to allow the exercise to proceed seamlessly.