The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has sought to dispel fears that a group of individuals is moving around under the guise of checking IDs ahead of the 2027 elections, falsely posing as the agency's enumerators.
In a notice, KNBS maintained that the information being spread through social media was malicious and an attempt to undermine an ongoing listing exercise.
KNBS assured the public that all their enumerators had valid identification cards with all the relevant details.
The agency, mandated with conducting statistical surveys on behalf of the government and its agencies, is currently engaged in a household remittances survey.
The 2025 Remittances Household Survey (2025 RHS) is a baseline survey aimed at providing qualitative and quantitative data on remittance activities, according to KNBS.
The 2025 RHS will target households receiving remittances from family members, relatives, and friends living in the diaspora; remittance inflows, as well as households sending remittances to family members, relatives, or friends living abroad; remittance outflows, in the past 12 months.
It also targets households receiving remittances from international organizations, either in Kenya or abroad, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UNHCR, among others.
This is a national exercise across all the counties. The first stage of the process, the listing for the 2025 RHS, began on June 3, 202,5, and will proceed for 30 days.
Meanwhile, the fake message circulating had purported that there was a group going to homes and
pretending to be officials from Home Affairs.
Further, it claimed that the alleged group has documents with the letterhead Department of Home Affairs and claims to be confirming that everyone has a valid ID for the upcoming elections.
Adding that: ''They are robbing homes. Take note, there is no initiative like that from the government. Send this to your neighbourhood group chat.''
KNBS has urged the public to contact various government agencies engaged in the current survey incase of suspicion among them the Central Bank of Kenya and the Ministry of Interior.
