Malawi Elections :Good voter turn up in Blantyre north

People of Blantyre north constituency could not wait but to wake up as early as 3 am in preparation to cast their presidential and parliamentary votes, Mana has established.

 

Visits to Namwiri, Muonekela, Mdeka, Namatsitsi, Namvuu, Lingizi, Katete, Lilangwe and Msambamwali primary school polling centres reveal that people were excited with the elections so much that everyone wanted to be the first. When the polling staff were getting settled to open the centres at six, people had already lined up for the exercise.

 

"I'm very happy that I have the right to choose a president and an MP of my choice that's why I thought it wise to do it in the morning whilst I'm still fresh," said Sophia Simon of Masinde village, T/A Chigaru.

 

While other centres like Namwiri, Namvuu, Mdeka, Lingizi and Muonekela had a lot of people in the morning and very few as at noon, Namitsitsi, Lilangwe, Katete and Msambamwali  still had long queues of voters as at 2pm.

 

Henderson Moyenda, National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) elections monitor stationed at Namwiri school centre pointed out that the good voter turn up shows that the people are patriotic citizens were proud of their human rights.

 

Blantyre north has a total of 30,796 registered voters and 17 voting centres.

 

MANA/JTC