100 year old Phylis Nyokabi Kamau registering as a voter outside Nakuru IEBC offices on February 2, 2017. Nyokabi who is registering for the first time since 2002 said she opted to register after watching Leaders appealing for registration through Television. Her son James Ng'ethe who accompanied her to the registration center said her mother had been requesting to be taken for registration for the last four days. However she faced a lot of challenges after her finger prints failed to read on Biometric Voter Registration System (BVRS) machine , and it forced the IEBC officials to repeat it five times. PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH

Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, once said that democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely.

And 100-year-old Phylis Nyokabi Kamau put these wise words into perspective yesterday when she registered as a voter.

Her son James Ng'ethe, who accompanied her, said for the past four days, she had been requesting to be taken to a polling station to exercise her right.

The biometric voter registration machine failed to capture her fingerprints four times but finally captured them on the fifth.

[PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/Standard]

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