Kanu official calls for audit of voters' register

Kanu has supported calls for a fresh audit of the voters' register before the next General Election.

Party Secretary General

said the exercise should be hastened since the party will not allow the 2017 elections to be conducted using the current voters' register.

He claimed the Jubilee coalition was planning to use the old voters' register to rig elections.

"We know their plan is to even use voter's cards of people who died long time ago to 'vote'. They also want to register people as young as 16 years as voters," claimed Mr Salat.

He warned the party would pile pressure on the Government to have the audit done even after election commissioners leave office.

"This is a battle that we will not relent on. We have won the first battle of having the commissioners leave office and this is now the right time to have a new register," he said.

The secretary general spoke yesterday at Mochongoi in Baringo County where he represented Baringo Senator Gideon Moi during the homecoming ceremony for Dr Stanley Rotich, who is the first person from the Eldorois community to attain a PhD in mathematics from Kenyatta University.

Salat maintained that Kanu would not join CORD as it was being alleged.

"I want to make it clear that Kanu is a strong party that cannot be swallowed or disbanded to join another coalition. We are a respected party all over the country," he said.

He warned other parties to brace themselves for a serious battle in the oncoming elections.

Baringo Senator Benjamin Cheboi, who was present, called for sobriety as leaders jostle for political seats.

He said that peace was paramount in the country for the sake of development.

"Let us always preach unity no matter our political differences. We should not divide this country just because our political agenda are not the same," he said.

Cheboi defended his term in office saying that it had changed the lives of many in the region and more so in the education sector.