The nationwide voter registration exercise entered its second week Monday but low turnout of people being registered is still a major concern.
It is 10 am Monday morning. This writer is at the Kondele flyover voter registration centre along the busy Kisumu–Kakamega highway, where majority of the people have come to verify their 2012 registration status and not to register for the first time.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission clerk in charge at the centre, requests for national identification numbers of those who want to check their registration status.
The clerk Margret Aluoch types the ID numbers in the laptop and registration status are revealed.
Satisfied, members of the public leave and the centre remains without people.
Mr Aluoch says most of the people visiting the centre want to confirm their status.
She urged members of the public who are yet to register as voters to come out in large numbers and be registered.
“Generally, the numbers are very low,” she said.
For the 30 minutes this writer was at the station, only two people turned out to be registered as new voters.
One of them is a middle aged man James Omondi Olum.
He did not vote during the 2013 general election because his ID card got lost just before the mass voter registration exercise towards the end of 2012.
“I am happy to be registered as a voter today. In 2013, I did not vote but in 2017, I will surely vote for my favourite candidates,” said Olum.