Thika Township ward residents have accused the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Thika Office of not making public the timetable schedule of mobile registration centres across the ward. 

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Potential voters and those seeking to verify their names or change their polling stations have said that they keep on going to the usual polling stations just to find no one from IEBC to handle them. 

IEBC has assigned each ward in the country one BVR kit which is being used to register all voters in that particular ward. Mobile registration centres have been created in each ward where nearby voters can go and register. 

"We would like the IEBC to make public the timetable schedule of mobile registration centres in this ward because we do not know at what time they will be where. This is a big ward with many people and they do not expect us to know where they are if they do not inform us," James Mwangi, a potential voter who has sought to be registered at Thika Post Office mobile centre thrice without success said on Thursday. 

Some potential voters who are expecting to vote in 2017 General Election for the first time have vowed not to look for the IEBC clerks anymore. 

"I was waiting to register as a voter with enthusiasm 2017 being my first time to participate in an election as a voter but I cannot keep on wasting my time looking for the IEBC clerks who are constantly on the move and don't tell us when they are coming," said Jane Wangechi, a Kiandutu potential voter. 

Efforts to get a comment from Thika Region IEBC Contact Person Nancy Kariuki proved futile after she referred us to a Mr Kaburia who is said to be coordinating registration in the ward. 

Kaburia said he was out of office in Nairobi for the just concluded Law Society of Kenya Elections. 

Township Ward encompasses Thika Town CBD, Kiandutu slums, Ngoingwa, Karibaribi, Section 9 among other areas and IEBC is projecting to register around 10000 new voters in the ward. At 2.30pm Thursday Thika Post Office mobile center had only registered 234 new voters in almost two weeks.