Shree Jay Ambee boda boda stage within Migori Town which has been turned into a mobile registration center

With the ongoing voters registration drive in the country extended until Sunday, a trader in Migori town of Indian origin has taken the drive a notch higher.

Jagdish Patel, the proprietor of Shree Jay Ambee mattresses within the town Central Business District has helped turn a boda boda shade he has donated into a voting registration center.

By Thursday evening, the center helped register 25 new voters which was twice more than a registration center at populous Migori Primary School only two hundred meters away.

“We have installed a public address system at the boda boda shade with an emcee calling on passerbys who are not registered to pass by,” Patel told Migori News on Thursday.

He said the exercise will continue until the last time, with polling centers targeted being those around Migori town.

“We have taken the initiative to help support locals to have their chance to elect their most preferred candidates in the forthcoming August 8 polls,” he said.

Patel and his younger son have been fixtures at political rallies organised by Cord leader Raila Odinga and other senior politicians across the country, by always representing Kenyans of Asia origin traders in the county.

Shree Jay Ambee sells mattresses, cushions and upholstery materials in Migori town at affordable rate.

The main store is situated opposite Equity Bank while another is situated opposite Kehancha town stage, adjacent to Cool Plaza within Migori town.