Opinion: Mt Kenya billionaires pool resources in hunt for numbers

Jobless youth and boda boda riders have been contracted to deliver eligible voters from their homesteads to registration centres. The teams have data of all eligible voters. The regions have been divided into small sections that are then allocated to various voter registration lobby groups to ensure maximum outcomes. The lobby groups are fully facilitated.PHOTO: COURTESY

Jubilee Party has rolled out a massive and well-funded voter registration drive in the Mt Kenya region.

The campaign, headed by a retired District Commissioner, operates separately from the party secretariat. So critical is the drive that the party suspended membership recruitment last week to mobilise supporters.