The voter registration that had been temporarily stopped in Migingo has resumed.
The exercise was stopped for two days by the Ugandan government which claimed that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was operating in a foreign land without the permission of the Ugandan government.
The dispute led to the arrest of two IEBC clerks who were conducting the registration. The Ugandan government demanded communication from the Kenyan government on the ongoing exercise. The IEBC, thereafter, wrote to the Uganda government and requested for the exercise to resume.
The IEBC coordinator in Nyatike, Migingo, Samuel Ochieng revealed that the exercise resumed during the weekend.
The IEBC commissioner, Thomas Letangule had earlier said that the voter registration was not going to be allowed to continue in Nyatike unless the Kenyan government settled the issue with the neighbouring Uganda government.
He also said this means Migingo belongs to Kenya and that is why the commission launched voter registration in the area. He said that Nyatike, where the exercise was taking place, is gazetted in Kenya as a polling station and, therefore, the halting of the process was not supposed to be done.