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- ↑ "Kenya Gazette dated 2nd April, 1963" (PDF). Gazettes.Africa. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ↑ "The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census" (PDF). Amazonaws. p. 171, 172, 173. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
