Travellers board buses at Nairobi's Machakos Country Bus station on July 30, 2017. [PHOTO/nation.co.ke]
Nairobi NASA leaders have launched a vote protection strategy to stop people leaving the city to the upcountry.
Dubbed 'Adopt-A-Bus Station' campaign, the strategy is meant to encourage the city voters to remain in Nairobi and assure them of their security before and after the August polls.
Spearheaded by Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and Machakos County Senator Johnson Muthama, the leaders have assured supporters that violence will not break out and so they should stay and vote.
“We do not want you to go back home,” Kidero said after meeting members of the Luhya community at the Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday.
“Let us adopt bus stations and stop people from departing for their rural homes. There will be no violence as the elections will be peaceful and so there is no need for people to go home,” Kidero said.
Muthama argued that people leaving the city will give Jubilee another five years in office 'to misrule the country'.
“Let us ensure that we send this government home on August 8. But this will only happen if we all remain to vote en masse on the election day,” Muthama said.