Uganda, May 10 -- The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) has assured the public that information that will be collected during the 2024 census won't be shared by anybody else.

The national statistics agency yesterday said Ugandans and non-nationals should not fear revealing personal, household, institutional, and community information to them because it is 100 percent safe.

Mr Didacus Okoth, the Ubos senior public relations officer, in a phone interview yesterday said: "Saying that the census is for taxes is bad because it is going to politicise the exercise, which is not right. There is a whole government agency responsible for taxes in this country."

"Our functions as Ubos are to collect, process and provide quality statistics that a...