People living with disability in Kisumu County have expressed challenges they are facing in their bid to register as voters as the one month mass voter registration nears its end.
The County coordinator Nick Kondwat who spoke on Sunday during an electoral process sensitization meeting in Kisumu organized by UNDP said many of them will not have the opportunity to register as voters.
Kondwat said the terrain in the villages make it difficult for people living with disability to reach to registration centres.
He appealed to IEBC to devise ways of reaching out to them in homes or designated places for registration.
“Let our politicians liaise with IEBC clerks to ensure nobody living with disability is left out during this mass voter registration,” he said.
Kondwat further appealed to the electoral body to carry out civic education among people living with disability through their groups.
He said at the moment there are no enough personnel to take them through the registration process thus locking most of them out of the process.
Kondwat said it remains their constitutional right to participate in the electoral process and should not be locked out.
“We have been locked out as clerks to register people, IEBC never recruited any one of us, but again we cannot be locked out during voting time, we must be registered, we must vote,” he told the forum.