About 4,000 people get registered for IDs in Kisumu East constituency
By Dickson Odhiambo
February 4, 2022
About 4,000 people
get registered for IDs in Kisumu East constituency
ABOUT 4,000 people have been registered to get Identity
Cards in various parts of Kisumu East Constituency for the last three months in
an exercise sponsored by an Aspiring Member of Parliament.
Those registered are mostly form four students of Secondary
schools with the constituency from the month of November last year to this February
in an exercise carried out by the office of the registrar of Persons in Kisumu
East Sub-county and sponsored by former East Africa Law Society President James
Mwamu who is aspiring to be the MP come August 9 this year through Orange
Democratic Movement {ODM} Party ticket.
Addressing students of Nyamasaria secondary school where 100
students were registered to get Identity cards, Mwamu said the office of
Registrar of Persons in Kisumu East has done a commendable job of registering
about 5,000 people to get the document since November last year to date.
He says the effort has been fruit together with the help of
National Government Administration Officers who have really helped in
mobilizing members of the public who don’t have the document to register.
Mwamu also says the efforts by the schools’ Principals who
have allowed the exercise to take place in their schools by registering form
four students has also yielded good fruits for the work done.
He says they have visited more than ten schools during the
exercise where many students were registered to get IDs, adding that they also
visited villages such as Komer in Manyatta B among others within the said
constituency.
“During our visit to schools, we managed to go to Orongo,
Kassagam, Dr. Aloo Gumbi, St Albert Angira, Kibos, Okok, and Nyamasaria among
others,” Mwamu says.
He says in one school known as Kassagam Secondary, the
officers from the office of the registrar of persons in Kisumu East managed to register
300 students in one day.
Mwamu says his team
has also been coordinating with the office of the Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission{IEBC} in Kisumu East to ensure that those who don’t have
voters card are registered during this second mass voter registration that will
come to an end this Sunday.
Mwamu says already the some new applicants have obtained the
Identity cards and have been registered as voters, adding that the focus is now
on getting everyone who has obtained ID but has never been registered as a
voter to do so and participate in the General elections slated for August 9 this
year.
He has further appealed to those who have not registered as
voters to do so during the mass registration exercise that will come to an end
in the next two days, adding that his team are moving around the entire constituency
to mobilize the residents to register as voters in large numbers ahead of the
polls.
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