Gen Zs where are you?:, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s Ainabkoi Constituency Registration Officer, Eunice Maru, and another officer, at their office in Kapsoya Estate, Eldoret City of Uasin Gishu Country, with their gadgets on the first day of the commission’s continuous voters registration on September 29, 2025, where by 2:30PM no one had gone to register. The commission targets to register 6.3 million new voters, majority being the youth, ahead of the 2027 General Elections. Jared Nyataya | Nation.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission says it is ready for mass voter registration starting March 30. But with turnout among young people remaining low, IEBC fears the Sh1.1 billion set aside for the one-month exercise could go to waste if citizens fail to register.
At the same time, the electoral body is raising concern over repeated cuts to its voter mobilization budget, saying the low numbers turning up are partly as a result of limited funding and the absence of sustained civic engagement to encourage public participation in democratic processes.
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