Angry Opposition supporters in Nairobi have vowed not to recognize President Uhuru Kenyatta as the head of state if he is declared the winner for a second term in office.
The group said they were disappointed with the IEBC's for proceeding with the election despite Raila Odinga's withdrawal from the contest.
The ODM leader said he will not take part in the election since the electoral agency did not respond to his team's 12-point irreducible minimums for a credible repeat poll.
National Super Alliance supporters in major slum areas of Kangemi, Kawangware, Mathare and Kibra boycotted the election.
Raila's backers in Kibra, Mathare and Kawangware engaged police officers in running battles after they attempted to disrupt the voting.
Police officers were forced to fire rubber bullets in the air to disperse the rowdy youth throwing stones at them.
However, NASA supporters in Kangemi boycotted the voting while keeping vigil a few metres from polling centers as instructed by Raila to express their disappointment.
"Why should we go to vote when our presidential candidate is not on the ballot. We don't care if Jubilee supporters elect their candidate to lead Kenya," Stephen Mirumbu, an opposition supporter, said.
"There is nothing he (Uhuru) has done for us. We only recognize Raila because he has a transformation agenda for this country."
Eric Akanyanya, another supporter, said he could not vote since IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati admitted last week that disagreements among commissioners and the political environment could not guarantee a credible election.
Akanyanya also said could not vote due to the absence of Raila on the ballot and that Uhuru's administration has "oppressed us."
"Uhuru has not delivered anything to woo us. There has been corruption, counties have no funds, doctors and teachers have been on strike_ what has he done?" he said.
"We have a hospital here in Kangemi that was supported by USAID during the Kibaki regime but when Uhuru assumed power, it was taken over by JICA and it is now in a dilapidated state," he said.
There was very low voter turnout during the repeat election compared with the August 8 exercise.
This was in most polling centres The Star toured in the slum areas and suburb estates of Spring Valley, Lavington, Loresho and Muthaiga.
Presiding officers in the polling stations confirmed that less than 25 per cent - equivalent to 170 voters - had cast their ballot before noon.
Voting kicked off at 6am although some polling stations experienced hitches such as KIEMs kits failing to work.
Innocent Ndumbiri, a presiding officer in Westlands, said they were forced to call the constituency tallying center to replace a KIEMS device.
"There was an incident with the KIEMS encoded in French yet we don't understand the language. We called the constituency centre and it was replaced," he said.
Ndumbiri also disclosed that two unregistered voters were turned way when the electronic devices failed to identify them despite insisting that they voted in 2013.
"They claimed they voted in 2013 but looking at their ID numbers you could know that they were lying because during that time they were under the age of 18," he said.
Despite Uhuru competing with other six presidential candidates in the rerun, presiding officers told Star that none had an agent in the stations except Jubilee Party's.
The presiding officers in slum areas confirmed that none of the international election observers visited the stations.
But a presiding officer at Loresho Primary School polling centre confirmed that the AU election observer mission chairman and former South Africa President Thambo Mbeki visited the station.
Other international observers who visited the center were from the IGAD and EU election observer missions.
credit: Star
