| Updated Tue, January 24th 2017 at 11:07 GMT +3CORD leader Raila Odinga is set to visit the Coast region this week to mobilise residents to register as voters. (Photo: Collins Oduor/Standard)The electoral agency has registered only 78,024 new voters in Coast's six counties in the first week of the mass voter registration. In the last elections, Coast registered 1.9 million voters out of a projected 2.9 million and only 57 per cent voted on March 4, 2013. North Coast Region Elections Coordinator Amina Sudi said Monday the region, which covers Kilifi, Tana River and Lamu counties, had registered only 24,000 votes out of 188,000 targeted eligible voters. We were expecting to register at least 50,000 voters in every week but by now we have registered 28,000 voters," said Amina.

Source: Standard Digital January 24, 2017 08:08 UTC