WITH few days remaining before the Election Day on October 31, 2010 towards general election 2010, Iringa Region have a total of 785, 192 eligible voters and also 2,367 polling stations have been earmarked , it has been revealed.
Speaking on Tuesday during an interview with ‘The Guardian’, the Regional Election Coordinator (REC) Barnabas Ndunguru said that every thing have been set well towards the preparations of the general election.
He told this newspaper that all electoral materials including the ballot papers have already arrived in all electoral constituencies of Iringa Region ready for the balloting.
Ndunguru who is also Assistance Regional Administrative Secretary (Administration) said that National Electoral Commission (NEC) has done fantastic job, whereby it has managed to bring electoral materials on time.
“We have already received all the necessary electoral materials as earlier as possible in our region from NEC and all the names of electorates have already been pasted on the various polling stations and also the exercise of checking their names by voters is going on smoothly but if anything will happen I will be informed by my returning officers and their assistants,” the REC noted.
Iringa Region had targeted to register a total of 930,271 voters in the permanent voter register earlier this year but only 785,192 which is equivalent to 84 percent of the total number of people registered.
The REC also named the electoral constituencies as Iringa Urban, Isimani, Kalenga, Kilolo, Mufindi North, Mufindi South, Njombe North, Njombe West, Njombe North, Makete and Ludewa.
He noted that Isimani Constituency is among the lowest number of people registered in the permanent register, and Kilolo Constituency has recorded the highest number eligible voters respectively in the region.
According to REC, there is no any political violence that has been reported in the region although there some few misunderstandings between the political parties which were normal and could not bring about political unrest.
Mwanafunzi wa Darasa la Sita katika Shule ya Msingi Mtwivila Manispaa ya Iringa Francisco Sanga (13) kulia alitolewa darasani asubuhi na mwalimu wake ili akamwangalizie jina la ndugu yake katika Kituo cha Kupigia Kura namba 00012598 kilichopo shuleni hapo. Mwanafunzi huyu alisema kuwa alitumwa na mwalimu wake kumwaangalizia jina moja la ndugu yake aitwaye Tunu Mohamed Mbaruku leo. (PICHA. FRIDAY SIMBAYA)
