The accident occurred yesterday near Nasiger Centre near Lomil Junction. The incident invoved a lorry that was verying election materials to 3 different stations in Turkana Central District when it Knoked a standing trailer that was destined to Lodwar from kakuma and the Lorry was verying election materials from Lodwar. Among the seriously injured people include 21 polling officers from the 3 polling centres. The injured people are admitted at Lodwar District Hospital. All victims were officers from the 3 stations thus the stations involved remain unopen until new officers are deployed with election materials supplied because all election materials were destroyed. According to the District independent interim electoral commission co-ordinator Mr. Stanley Kipkore the election materials shall be airlifted from Nairobi and they will do all possible means to see that officers are available for that exercise. Visiting the victims of the accident DO 1 Turkana cental Mr. Levi Senoga, OCPD Turkana South Mr. Lawrence Njoroge and his counterpart Loima OCPD Mr. Muchiri Nyaga have called for calm during the exercise and assured the public that the Government has put security measures in place. They wished the Victims quick recovery.
Radio Akicha sends condolences to the families of the injured victims.
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