About 850 Kenyans living in Rwanda will head to their High Commission in Kacyiru to cast their vote in the Kenyan General Elections slated for August 8, according to the embassy, the New Times reports.
John Mwangemi, the Kenyan High Commissioner in Rwanda, on Wednesday confirmed this saying that preparations had been completed in the run-up to next month’s elections.
“We have received a team from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) who came and, registered the voters and later, we conducted civic education on how to vote and what is required of each registered voter. We are ready,” the report quotes him say.
According to Mwangemi, Kenyans who have registered with the High Commission are about 1,400 though if you include those not registered by the embassy; they are estimated at more than 3,000.
In a telephone interview, the president of the Association of Kenyans living in Rwanda, Boniface Mutua, said that Kenya’s IEBC had been in Rwanda twice, first to register the voters and later to confirm the information provided by the voters.
He said that the registered voters were ready and had been equipped with the necessary information.
The main contenders of the 8th August elections are the incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta (Jubilee) and opposition leader Raila Odinga (NASA)
