Lobby flags off caravan to sensitize on voters’ verification exercise.

 Anglican Church of Kenya priest Reverend Andrew Buyu flags off a caravan by the Transform Empowerment for Action Initiative [TEAM] meant to sensitize the public on the importance of the ongoing voter verification exercise-Photos By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

June 4, 2017.

Lobby flags off caravan to sensitize on voters’ verification exercise.

With less than only a week to the closure of the voter verification exercise, a lobby group has launched a caravan to help in mobilizing the public to participate in the exercise ahead of its closure next week.

The project which is being funded by Urai Trust and DFID has been flagged off by the Transform Empowerment for Action Initiative [TEAM].

The caravan will move in the seven sub counties within Kisumu County ahead of the closure of the exercise conducted by the IEBC.

Speaking to Journalists today during the flag off of the caravan, Executive Director of Transform Empowerment for Action Initiative (TEAM) George Collins Owuor said there was low turnout of those people verifying their votes.

Owuor says IEBC is already preparing to do a voters clean up hence all citizen must ensure to verify their details from their various polling stations before the June 9 deadline.

“During the last General Election of 2013, some people went to vote and found their names missing in the voters’ register and should now take advantage of this opportunity and verify their names,” Owuor says.

The Executive Director has called upon politicians to ensure that they urge their electorates to verify their details with the IEBC during this exercise.

 On his part, Anglican Church of Kenya Priest Reverend Andrew Buyu has urged on the IEBC to come out clearly and dispel the rumors and fears going round that if one does not verify their votes, their names will be scrap off from the system and deleted.

Reverend Buyu says the IEBC should come out and clear the air this matter.

The clergy has also urged politicians to embrace peace during this campaign period and be political tolerant.

“I want to urge people to come out in large numbers and verify their voters which will enable them exercise their democratic right by voting in their preferred candidates,” he says.

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