Now we know county with the least camels

• Animal rights activists might consider taking their ‘heshimu punda’ campaigns to Rift Valley

With more than three million people, Nairobi takes the crown as the county with the largest population. But when it comes to camels, it pulls the tail with only 20.

Two are to be found at Uhuru Park, one at Jamhuri Park, one at Mamba Village in Karen, two at Roasters restaurant on Thika Road and the other 14 in various other entertainment spots around the city.

Their job is to give five-minute rides to face-painted children as their parents enjoy themselves over a drink and some roast meat.

Fewest pigs

There are no prizes for guessing which region has the highest number of camels and the fewest pigs. Suffice it to say that that province has 1.7 million camels and 68 pigs.

Talking of animals, if every woman, man and child were to get a “kienyeji” chicken each, there would not be enough to go around. In a population of 38 million, there are only 25.7 million free-range chickens.

Animal rights activists might consider moving from places like Mwea in Eastern and Limuru in Central Province and take their “heshimu punda” campaigns to Rift Valley, which has 988,000 beasts of burden.

This is more than half of the national population of donkeys since there are 1.8 million countrywide.

As for cats and dogs, Kenyans will have to wait until 2019 as the animals were not counted in the last census whose results were released Tuesday by the minister for Planning and National Development, Mr Wycliffe Oparanya.

Although the people of Central Province have never made secret their love for goat ribs, they have among the fewest goats. The lion’s share of the herbivores is to be found in Rift Valley Province.

Whereas there are only half-a-million goats in Central, Rift Valley has 11.7 million, including those whose teeth have dropped off because they have eaten too much Prosopis Juliflora, also known as the “Mathenge” weed.