With the mass voter registration exercise about to end, over 2,800 identity cards remain uncollected at the Huduma Centre Busia branch.
The Centre manager Linda Jaleta told those who applied for duplicate Identity cards between November and January last year to collect them to enable those who have not registered as voters to do so before the deadline.
“Despite sending text messages to the recipients most of them haven’t reacted. Only those who applied two weeks ago have collected their IDs,” Jaleta told Busia County Executive Committee Member in charge of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Dr Moses Osia who had paid her a courtesy call.
Dr Osia thanked Jaleta for the efforts she had put in by sending text messages to those whose IDs are ready. He urged them to take advantage of that kind gesture to collect them as soon as possible.
Dr Osia also paid a courtesy call to the County Registrar of Persons Aileen Mandy in her office. The CEC member found the Registrar dispatching IDs which had just arrived from Nairobi to various chiefs across the county.
Dr Osia said he is happy with the way the County Registrar, who coincidentally was his alumni at St Mary’s Mundika Secondary School, is working to ensure the IDs were distributed without delay.
Busia Women representative Florence Mutua and other NASA leaders from Western Kenya last week camped in Nairobi to ensure the release of 43,000 IDs for the region, including 10,000 from Busia.
