By KENNEDY MUPESENI –
PARAMOUNT Chief Chitimukulu Kanyanta Manga II is concerned about the way the mobile voter registration exercise has been conducted and has called for an extension.
The Mwine Lubemba said there is need to re-conduct  the voter registration and resolve some administrative hitches characterised the exercise.
He was speaking when Patriotic Front (PF) Malole Member of Parliament, Christopher Yaluma paid a courtesy call on him on Monday this week.
The traditional leader observed that in some instances, materials at most registration centres were inadequate.
“I am also concerned with the registration of voters in my chiefdom because there were no materials, so instead of spending two weeks, most of the days they were not working.
“So I suggested that the officers should come and finish the exercise because they only worked for three days and they ran out of materials. This is really my big worry,” he said.
He said he would continue working with his village headmen to encourage subjects to register as voters so that they could participate in next year’s general elections.
“I have been encouraging village headmen and women to ensure that their subjects register as voters. We are the biggest constituency, so we need to have a lot of registered voters so that we can participate in the elections,” he said.
He would continue working with Government to ensure that development is brought to the area.
Mr Yaluma who is also Mines Minister said,  Cabinet was aware of the technical hitches characterising the voter registration exercise and assured that Government would work out modalities to extend the exercise.
The Ministry of Home Affairs had put some mitigating measures to ensure that more eligible voters are registered during the exercise.