IEBC’s target on voter listing exercise could be sabotaged even as political big wigs traverse the country in mobilization drives.
Reports indicate that former members of the outlawed Mungiki sect in Murang’a have bucked off from the process fearing that their fingerprints will be used to probe their past crimes.
This latest development shadows President Uhuru Kenyatta’s order to chiefs and other administrators not to arrest reformed Mungiki sect members.
The President who was speaking in Laikipia County during a voter mobilization mission late last month urged officials to allow the members to pick ID cards and register as voters in the ongoing exercise.
Security officials liaised with community members in Murang’a on Thursday urging the ex-Mungiki members to register as voters ahead of the February 14 deadline.
"If you are here and you know you were once arrested in connection to the sect, kindly go register as a voter because nobody will follow your fingerprints from IEBC," George Kimani, Murang’a media chair said as quoted by The Star.
Other community members said the government was keen on voter registration and would not play foul to intimidate the exercise in any manner.
IEBC targets to register 6 million new voters during the ongoing exercise. However, the electoral agency has reported to miss daily and weekly targets with a considerable margin.
Of the 825,145 new electors listed in the first week of the mass voter registration, Nairobi County took the lead with 95, 966 ahead of Kiambu which had 61,541, Kilifi listed third best at 38,339, as Nakuru and Meru closed top five counties at 35, 815 and 33,285 respectively.