About 147,000 people have obtained National Registration Cards in Eastern Province.

About 147,000 people have obtained their National Registration Cards NRCs in the on-going mobile National Registration exercise in Eastern Province.
Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Col Panji Kaunda confirmed this to Breeze News this morning.
Col Kaunda says that the province has exceeded its target of 80 thousand people and the number is likely to increase before the close of the exercise in the first week of December.
And Col. Kaunda says that government will ensure that the Mobile voter and National Registration exercise is conducted concurrently so that people are given chance to get both documents.
He acknowledged receiving reports that some people have had no chance to register as voters because of lack Of NRC’s as officers from the voter registration exercise visit their areas first before the ones from National Registration.