IEBC says 800,000 voters have placed transfer requests
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission (IEBC) says 800,000 registered voters have requested to be
transferred to different voting centres across the 47 counties.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati revealed that
preparations for the General Elections are taking shape as the commission plans
to clean up the register in the month of April.
Less than 5 months to the August 9 polls, the
commission says it is working round the clock to ensure it delivers a free,
fair and credible election.
Chebukati and IEBC CEO Marjan Hussein Marjan on
Thursday told the Senate committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that the 800,000
requests by voters were made during the period which the commission held the
enhanced voter registration which was done in 2 phases between October 2021 and
February 2022.
Further, the commission is also uploading the
data of 2,554,447 new voters into their register that had more than 19 million
registered voters. The cumulative number of registered voters in the country
now stands at 22,223,445.
IEBC will then embark on a clean-up exercise
of the register that will involve an audit before the document can be availed
to Kenyans for scrutiny between the months of April and May.
Chebukati also revealed that Kenyans in the
diaspora have been registered across 12 centres in the U.S, U.K, Qatar,
Germany, South Sudan, Tanzania, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Rwanda,
Burundi and South Africa; 7 out of the 12 are new centres.
IEBC said it will crack the whip on
politicians fueling hate speech across the country.
The commission is also expected to recruit
the highest number of poll officials in an election so far, in July.
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