DOWA-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioner Dr. Emmanuel Fabiano has described the commencement of voter’s verification exercise in Dowa district as worrisome.
Fabiano said this on Friday morning after visiting number of registration centers in the district.
His visit revealed the low turnout of people in the exercise.
Speaking to the media after the inspection while expressing his worries, Fabiano blamed political parties and some NGOs for not helping in sensitizing their subjects to verify.
“Political parties and some concern stakeholders should take their part in sensitizing their community on the same in order to deal with this problem because the tendency is worrisome.
“Imagine since I have started my inspection in Dowa district, the highest center has only 60 people who has verified their names,” observes Fabiano
Meanwhile, some supervisors and concern citizens attributed to the low turnout to poor civic education on the matter.
Ruckia Bahati supervisor at Tchawale primary school registration center said many people were superised seeing MEC officers at the premises.
“Number of voters are learning about this exercise while passing through this area, imagine since Wednesday and today being the last day only 53 people have verified their names,” she said.
Yohane luzeni, Mponera 2 voter registration center Supervisor said, “As of today only 62 people have verified so being the last day, it’s obvious that many will not verify.”
Mary phiri, a wife of a primary school teacher at Mponera 2 said, “I have not verified my name, I was surprised yesterday after coming from the funeral that people have started verifying their names, many of us are not aware maybe they should add some days.”
The exercise started three days ago aiming at letting voters to confirm if their names are in the system.
