By MARY WAMBUIMore by this AuthorA number of voters in Murang'a County had to wait a while to cast their ballot vote after the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) kits failed to read their fingerprints. Woman representative Sabina Chege said she received phone calls from voters who had been turned away by electoral agency officers after their fingerprints could not be detected. "We talked to the IEBC officials and asked them to verify voters details on the manual register using their identification cards when such cases arise. Those affected, she said, included tea pickers and casual labourers working in quarries, majority of whom voted in the August elections. PATRIOTISMShe denounced instances of violence in some parts of the country such as Kisumu where youth blocked roads to prevent distribution of voting materials.

Source: Daily Nation October 26, 2017 16:18 UTC