Nairobi — Kenyans who do not wish to disclose their tribe on the census forms need not do so and can simply write "I am a Kenyan."
At the same time, the cost of the census, whose countdown starts on Friday with the launch of an awareness campaign by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga at a ceremony in Nairobi, has been set at Sh7.4 billion, with a large chunk of the money going towards paying the 143,000 people hired for the job.
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