IEBC fails to meet voter listing target

IEBC clerk Gabriel Waswa records Mama Mary Wataka’s fingerprints during the ongoing mass voter registration exercise in Lusumu Buracho, Kakamega County, yesterday. Wataka was enlisting as a voter for the first time. [PHOTO: CHRISPEN SECHERE/STANDARD].

NAIROBI: The first phase of the ongoing mass voter registration exercise by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has failed to reach its target despite massive voter education drives by the commission and political parties.

In spite of heightened political temperatures in the country, IEBC says it will miss its own target by 70 per cent after registering just slightly under one million people against the intended four million by close of the third week.