With just slightly over one year to the general election political players are back to the grassroots to mobilize the support base to register as voters.
The focus now shifting to the diaspora vote, Deputy President William Ruto now turning to Kenyans abroad in a bid to tilt the political scales in his favor.
Over the weekend Ruto had an engagement with a group in the diaspora. The DP now pushing IEBC to have the necessary infrastructure to register Kenyans abroad and ultimately have them vote in the August 9th, general election.
“If we are not disrupted by the BBI stories maybe there is sufficient time for IEBC to build the necessary infrastructure to give you guys in the diaspora to join the rest of Kenyans and the rest of the Kenyans in our near diaspora in East Africa to vote for leaders of your choice,” said Ruto
Ruto’s statement coming just a week after United Democratic Alliance UDA launched its USA Washington state branch in an event hosted by Murang’a Senator Irungu Kanga’ta and addressed by Ruto.
The chairman of Diaspora Kenya Alliance Dr. Shem Ochuodho says the federation long quest to have Kenyans abroad participate in next year’s election is owned and they are seeking to engage IEBC on the modalities to fast-track diaspora vote
Dr. Ochuodho retaliated the significance of Kenyans abroad to governance and the Kenyan economy.
In the 2017 general election, IEBC registered 4393 Kenyans abroad spread across five countries of Burundi, Tanzania Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa. The new push seeking to have Kenyans, in Western countries enjoying.
