Don’t manipulate disabled numbers

That the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities Vitalis Masakhwe can rubbish the census results as a ‘fraud’ is unfortunate.

It is important for Mr Masakhwe to draw a clear distinction between statistical sampling and actual figures arrived at from a physical count carried out from house to house.

Sampling, which is more often than not clustered, has an inherent margin of error that tends to lean on the higher side. It seems the underlying reason for negating the figures the Government took time to arrive at has to do with the allocation of funds to the disabled.

The reasoning is that the larger the numbers, the bigger the cheque. This boils down to that ubiquitous Kenyan vice -— avarice.

Alexander Chagema, Kakamega}