LSK elections kick off countrywide

Lawyers queue to vote at Milimani Law Courts during the LSK elections on Thursday. PHOTO | MAUREEN KAKAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Law Society of Kenya elections kicked off across the country Thursday morning.

Voting started at 8am and is expected to end at 5pm.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission is supervising the polls.

Nairobi has the majority of voters and the candidates who gets majority of the votes stands a chance of winning.

The city has over 6,000 voters out of the total 9,009.

According to Martin Simotwo, the presiding officer at the Milimani Law Courts polling centre, about 21 per cent of the Nairobi voters had voted by noon.

In Kisumu, the poll went on smoothly with lawyers turning up in numbers to cast their ballots.

According to Presiding Officer Yvonne Okeyo, there are 182 registered voters who were expected to cast their ballots.

By 10.30am, 51 lawyers had already voted, an estimated voter turnout of 28 per cent .

Mrs Okeyo, however, indicated that they were allowing lawyers from outside to vote so long as they have the required documents.

“We are allowing lawyers from outside Kisumu to vote so long as they have their national identification cards (IDs), passports or their LSK membership cards,” said Mrs Okeyo.

Meanwhile, courts continued to operate normally even as the exercise went on in one of the court rooms.