IEBC polling stations

The quest for democracy to elect leaders of choice has forced residents of Tana River County to vote in the wild where the IEBC set up mobile polling ...

Daudi Ibrahim a voter from Gafuru polling station said voting was going on peaceful and people had braved the heat of the sun to vote. She said immediately after she is declared the winner she will embark on a mission to ensure there will be no more mobile polling stations in the future. “The pastoralists have left their animals with young children so as to come and vote, we believe God is with us and Inshallah pastoralists, farmers and every one of Tanariver have come out in large numbers, left their businesses, farms to come and vote,” she said. In an interview after Hussein said the polling station was called Harambee mobile polling station and thanked residents for turning out in large numbers despite the fact that there were no classrooms for people to have a proper polling station. The aim of the mobile polling station was to give a chance to the pastoralists to vote and go back to their normal day to day life of taking care of livestock. She then had a word with the officers and we overheard her requesting the security officers to allow the women with young children and expectant to vote without queuing so as to go back to their homes due to the heat.