Large voter turnout in Kenyan election

(Vatican Radio) Kenyans are voting Monday in a National election. They will choose a president, members of parliament and senators, county governors and members of 47 county assemblies. The poll was overshadowed by a pre-dawn attack on police in Mombasa which killed several officers hours before Kenyans began casting votes. Joseph Kabiru, is the media officer for the Horn and East of Africa with the UK based Catholic aid agency Cafod.

Speaking from Turi an area in the Rift Valley in Kenya, he told Lydia O’Kane that many people have been turning out to vote.

“At the station where I voted there was a massive turnout”… However, there has been some challenges with a metric voter registration machine which has largely not been able to function and the Independent Electoral Land Boundaries Commission has now been forced to revert to the manual register.”
Official results are expected to be announced by March 11th by the electoral commission. Listen to Lydia O'Kane's interview with Joseph Kabiru