Murang'a Senator Irungu Kang'ata speaks to Kihoya residents, Murang'a County, on June 26, 2017. He is offering free transport to polling centres for Muranga voters residing in Nairobi. [Photo: Daily Nation]Leaders in Mt Kenya have rolled out a multi-million-shillings voter turnout campaign to ensure that the area achieves at least 95 percent, if not 100 percent, voter-turnout.The leaders from Murang’a, Laikipia and Meru counties, for instance, are offering free transport to polling centres.Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata has rolled out a free transport programme for all voters who reside in Nairobi but are registered voters in his county, the Nation reports.He says the programme will start on October 26 from 5am to 2pm, targeting 50, 000 Muranga voters who live in Nairobi.Jubilee leaders in Meru and Laikipia on the other hand, are planning to hire vehicles to ferry voters in an effort to increase voter turnout on October 26.Also, each polling station in counties like Laikipia will have two women allied to Jubilee to identify and reach out to voters who will not have turned up to vote by 2pm on Thursday. The women will make arrangements for them to be ferried to cast their ballots.According to the Nation, Laikipia leaders led by Woman Rep Catherine Waruguru and Governor Ndiritu Muriithi said on Monday that vehicles and bodabodas will be on standby to ferry more than 40,000 people who did not take part in the August 8 election.Finally, in Meru, Lands CS Jacob Kaimenyi said local leaders had put enough measures in place to ensure those who are sick or disabled are ferried to polling stations."We are ready to offer our vehicles to transport the sick. We are appealing for selfless service by all residents to make the turnout better," Prof Kaimenyi said after meeting local leaders in Meru town as quoted by Nation.

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