Kenyan students in Arusha, Tanzania, have been urged to register as voters ahead of the February 6 deadline.
The IEBC and Kenya Consulate Arusha held a consultative forum to strategize on how to engage Kenyan students living in Arusha to turn up and register as voters in the ongoing diaspora voter registration.
The diaspora voter registration is expected to end on February 6.
The Kenya High Commissioner to Tanzania Dan Kazungu urged Kenyans in Dar Es Salaam to take advantage of the diaspora voter registration and register as voters.
"In Tanzania, registration of eligible Kenyans is being undertaken at the Kenya High Commission in Dar-Es-Salaam and Kenya Consulate in Arusha," IEBC said.
The commission commenced Diaspora voter registration on January 21 at Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates.
Kenyans in Arusha, Germany and Qatar have continued to turn up to register as voters, change their particulars and transfer their polling stations in the ongoing exercise.
According to IEBC, only 163 new Diaspora voters were enlisted on the first week with 184 requests for transfer and 136 applications for change of particulars.
Kenyans in the diaspora had asked IEBC to extend the deadline for voter registration from 15 days to at least six weeks.
In a statement, the Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA), which consists of 46 Kenyan diaspora organizations around the globe, faulted IEBC for giving 15 days to Kenyans in the diaspora to register as voters, yet other citizens in Kenya have been given 3 weeks.
"This discrepancy in the time limits denies Kenyans in the diaspora a fair opportunity to register in their numbers," the KDA said.
