Members of the Nyakatch Koguta clan in Nyakatch have vowed to reject the looming census should the government fail to solve the border disputes in the region.
The community which lies in the border of Kisumu and Kericho counties says that they must be counted as constituents of Kisumu County, failure to which they will boycott the census.
Through their ward representative Julius Genga, they said that the boundary conflict has for years deprived them of state services, as Kericho has not been serving them.
Genga spoke when he led the group in holding demonstrations along the Muhoroni-Londiani Road on Thursday, ahead of the exercise set for the night of August 24 and 25.
"The community elders from Koguta clan have made it clear they have suffered for too long and they will not participate in the census exercise conducted from the precincts of Kericho County because no service or development has been forthcoming from Kericho,” said Genga.
He said that the Kericho leadership has been fighting to have them counted on the Kericho side to balloon its numbers, which was the case during the Huduma Namba registration.
The MCA insisted that the push to register them in Kericho was unsuccessful, saying that the same will be the case in the census exercise.
“They tried to interfere with the process of Huduma Namba but the community resisted their efforts and had the exercise conducted by the local administration in Muhoroni sub-county in Kisumu,” he added.