Mozambicans living in Kenya for 60 years refuse envoys call to vote in Mozambique’s election

A man expresses his point during a meeting at Jomo Kenyatta Primary School grounds in Kwale County on Sunday 27th July 2014. The meeting attended by Mozambique high commissioner Floriano Maneno was disrupted by some attendants who said that they were not willing to vote in Mozambique since they have already settled in Kenya. [PHOTO: KELVIN KARANI]

KWALE COUNTY: A meeting convened by the Mozambican ambassador Floriano Maneno to quell the growing dissent among Makonde community of Kwale and his Government turned chaotic at Jomo Kenyatta Primary School on Sunday after they split in two.

Half of the estimated 40,000 Makonde people who trace their roots to Mozambique support efforts by Mozambique's effort to register them to vote in that country's October polls and eventually repatriate them to the Southern Africa country but the rest want to be given Kenyan citizenship after intermarrying with Kenyans and living in Kenya for more than 60 years.