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Why Embu youths fear listing as voters

Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki. (Photo: Joseph Muchiri/Standard)

Many youths in Embu are not registering as voters for fear of arrests, a Cabinet secretary has revealed.

Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki attributed this to propaganda being spread through social media that biometric voter registration kits would enable law enforcers to net people who engage in crime.

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