THE National Electoral Commission (NEC)
has extended for four days Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) in Dar es
Salaam, while 2,040 aliens were netted with voter identification cards
(IDs) in various parts of the country during the exercise.
NEC Chairman, Judge (rtd) Damian Lubuva,
told a news conference in Dar es Salaam that the decision to extend
registration in Dar es Salaam was due to the big turnout of people.
The exercise was earlier scheduled to
end today, but would now go on until Tuesday. “Sixty-two per cent of the
targeted 2.9 million eligible voters have registered in Permanent
Voters’ Register (PVR) in Dar es Salaam by Wednesday,” said NEC
Chairman.
Justice Lubuva said 1,754,725 people had
already registered in PVR in Dar es Salaam by Wednesday which brings
the total number of people booked to 18,826,718 countrywide. Tanzania
has about 48 million people and the target is to register 23 million
people.
Tanzanian citizens aged 18 and above are
eligible to vote. He pointed out that a total of 460,222 people had
already registered in PVR in Ilala municipality by Wednesday while the
target was to register 811,716 people, adding that a total of 722,404
people had registered in Kinondoni municipality while the target was to
register 1,102,565 people.
He said after completion of the exercise
the electoral body would start to display the PVR for verification,
stressing that voters should turn out to crosscheck their personal
details and make corrections where necessary.
“Those who have lost their voter
Identification Cards for various reasons are going to be provided with
the new ones,” he said. The chairman said verification would be jointly
conducted with other state organs including the Immigration Department
to detect non-citizens who have allegedly been registered in the PVR.
Meanwhile, the Immigration Department
acting Commissioner, Mr Abbas Ilovya, said it was a crime for
non-citizens to register in PVR.
He said 708 non-citizens were reportedly
registered in Kagera, Mara (619), Tanga (348), Kigoma (254), Rukwa
(13), Kilimanjaro (12), Ruvuma (9), Geita (6), Shinyanga (7), Mtwara
(3), Coast Region (2), Mbeya (1), Morogoro (1), Dar es Salaam (65).
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