BY SAM ALFAN.
The High Court has ordered the IEBC to extend the voter registration deadline with a further two days.
This is following an application by rights activist Okiya Omtata challenging the deadline set for today.
According to Omtata, tomorrow’s deadline contravenes sections of the Election Act 2011.
Omtata wants the court to also compel IEBC to register voters using birth certificate and expired passports.
He told Judge Enoch Mwita Chacha that he should declare that a single database of citizens should be used to transact all affairs affecting citizens and that the separate registrations for exams ID, KRA PIN and Passports are unreasonable and a waste of public funds.
Omtata additionally says that without full disclosure, it is impossible to tell how the IEBC estimated targets for registering voters in various parts of the country.
Omtata also argues that IEBC must be independent from the executive by letting the public know how widespread the discriminative issuance of IDs is and how it disenfranchises the unsuspecting citizens.
Proceedings resume on Thursday.
