Several minority ethnic groups have welcomed the government’s move to give them a separate code ahead o
f next week’s national census. Planning minister Wycliffe Oparanya last week directed that all minority tribes be given a separate code even as controversy rages on the government's decision to include the question on ethnicity in the national census. The national census will be held on August 24. Leaders from minority ethnic groups had complained that they had been lumped together with bigger tribes since 1963. The Terik, for example, used to be counted as Nandis. They will now be counted as an independent group under code 671. The minorities had threatened to boycott the census unless they were coded, according to Mr Mark Ragor, the chairman of the Terik Education Promotion and Development Group (TEPAD) and the chairman of the Terik council of elders, John Bor. Last month officials from the Ogiek, Terik, Njemps, Ndorobo, Malakote, Wanyayoya, Galjeel and the Sanyee ethnic groups from Coast and Rift Valley Provinces warned that they would boycott the census unless they were given a separate code.
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f next week’s national census. Planning minister Wycliffe Oparanya last week directed that all minority tribes be given a separate code even as controversy rages on the government's decision to include the question on ethnicity in the national census. The national census will be held on August 24. Leaders from minority ethnic groups had complained that they had been lumped together with bigger tribes since 1963. The Terik, for example, used to be counted as Nandis. They will now be counted as an independent group under code 671. The minorities had threatened to boycott the census unless they were coded, according to Mr Mark Ragor, the chairman of the Terik Education Promotion and Development Group (TEPAD) and the chairman of the Terik council of elders, John Bor. Last month officials from the Ogiek, Terik, Njemps, Ndorobo, Malakote, Wanyayoya, Galjeel and the Sanyee ethnic groups from Coast and Rift Valley Provinces warned that they would boycott the census unless they were given a separate code.For further details visit as:http://www.nation.co.ke/News/regional/-/1070/641532/-/7lmty6/-/
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