By Ireen Mseteka
Likoma, November 10, Mana: District Commissioner (DC) for Likoma Abubakar Nkhoma has asked men to register in large numbers during the second phase of the Malawi Electoral Commission’s voter registration exercise taking place in the district.
The DC said this Sunday after supervising six registration centres in Likoma where he noted that more women had so far registered in large numbers than men on day one of the registration exercise.
“Generally, the turn up of day one was impressive especially women. We have seen more women have registered. We only had one centre where more men registered than women.
“Of course as a district we have more women than men but still more I would encourage men to go and get registered inorder for them to vote during 2025 elections,” said Nkhoma.
The DC noted that there was need for adequate publicity to let everyone know that voter registration is taking place in the district.
Supervisor at Likoma Youth Hall, Micheal Kanjaya said the exercise was going on well as people were turning up for registration since the commencement of the exercise.
“Today being a Sunday, people have been showing up here and there, as you may know many of them are attending church service but as of yesterday we registered about 79 registrants which is a good start,” said Kanjaya.
The registration exercise, which commenced on 9th November is expected to end on 22nd November and Likoma has six centres while Chizumulu has four centres.
