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Kisii MP's deliver YES

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Published on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:06

In Kitutu-Chache, home to leading ‘No’ proponents Samuel Nyangeso and Mairura Okemwa, recorded the highest ‘No’ vote in the region at 13,253.

However, Kitutu-Chache MP and Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister Richard Onyonka withered the ‘No’ storm to deliver the ‘Yes’ vote with a convincing 30,891 votes.

"Despite the heavyweights in the ‘No’ camp coming from my constituency, my people have made me proud by supporting the new law," Mr Onyonka said.

Onyonka burst into celebrations after the results were announced at Marani yesterday.

Briefing the media at her office, Nyanza South IIEC Regional Elections co-ordinator Sarah Ogaro said voter turnout was 60 per cent, but was slightly lower in Kisii, which had the highest registered number of voters.

Few hitches

She said the exercise went on well despite a few hitches occasioned by rain and terrain in Mbita constituency, where election officials had to be transported by boat from Mfangano Island.

"We employed technology to relay the results without much difficulty," she said.

Yes carried the day

In Education Minister Sam Ongeri’s Nyaribari Masaba constituency, ‘Yes’ carried the day with 22,076 against ‘No’s 3,718.

Some 42,129 voters had registered to take part in the referendum.

At the neighbouring Nyaribari Chache, 23,109 people supported the new law, while 8,004 rejected it. The constituency represented in Parliament by Dr Robert Monda has 47,687 registered voters.

Charles Onyancha’s Bonchari constituency voted ‘Yes’ with 17,039, while ‘No’ had 6,701 votes.