CORD's New Demand to IEBC

The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has issued demands to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ahead of the new voter registration campaign scheduled for February.

The coalition demanded IEBC to give each polling station in Kenya its own biometric voter registration kit before any new registration could be carried out.

CORD asserted this on Monday during a press conference citing that they would oppose the whole process if this was not done.

"We want the IEBC to immediately come clean on the number of registration centres for the February-March exercise and how those centres have been selected and the distribution," Tongaren MP David Simiyu was quoted by the Nation.

CORD cited the 2013 General election which was faced with a lot of issues due to insufficient supply of the BVR kit and functionality of the tools.

"Since 2013, the IEBC has done nothing to procure more registration kits to cover all polling stations in the country. About 18 months to the elections, and about a month to the first major voter registration since last elections, IEBC is still stuck with just 15,000 BVR kits,” ODM's Chairman John Mbadi stated.

The Opposition firmly told the Commission that if it would not be able to supply BVR kits to the 34,000 polling stations, they ought to suspend the exercise.