Governor Jack Ranguma has dispatched a team of bodaboda operators to sensitise area residents to register as voters.
Ranguma who visited Seme on Thursday said the team will go round in all parts of the county to conduct a campaign aimed at increasing voter registration numbers.
With one week into the mass voter registration, the county has performed poorly in voter registration with a paltry 12,000 new voters against the IEBC target of 110,000 registering.
While addressing the media on Thursday, the governor revisited his earlier promise of giving Sh1 million to the ward which will record the highest number of new voters, adding that registering as voters was the only way to elect good leaders.
He said the team will go on a door to door mission to get people out of their houses into the registration centres, especially the sick and the disabled who cannot walk to the centres.
“Let us come out in large numbers and register when there is still time. As Kisumu, we have a potential of registering 250,000 new voters hence we should come out and not wait to be pushed,” said Ranguma.
The governor said there was improvement in registration in Seme.
He however, called upon the national administration to speed up the release of ID cards lying in their offices so as to allow people to get them in time and register.
“We are aware that there are so many uncollected IDs. Let the cards be given to the assistant chiefs to take them to the owners when there is still time. I also urge the ODM party grass root leaders to come out and tell people to register,” he added.
He said: “It is a common thing that bad leaders are elected by people who do not vote, so let us not be part of the people who elect bad leaders.”