Kenyans started voting for lawmakers and a new president early on Tuesday after a campaign in which the key issues were rising food costs and corruption, The Independent Uganda reported.
Long lines of eager voters were already showing up in the capital Nairobi by 6:00am ahead of Kenya’s 12th General Election since independence and its 7th since the reintroduction of multi-part democracy in 1992. It is also the third General Election to be held under the Constitution of Kenya 2010.
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said on Monday that it had finalised preparations for the national poll.
Wafula Chebukati, the Chairman of IEBC said that logistics including deployment of ballot papers, polling clerks and security personnel had been finalised to ensure the voting exercise was devoid of glitches.
“The preparations have been completed to ensure that we deliver credible elections,” Chebukati said at a briefing in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
Kenya hold its seventh general election since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1991 where some 22.1 million registered voters will elect the country’s fifth president, members of the National Assembly, senators, and county governors.
