Polling stations have been opening across Kenya as nine million voters go to the polls for the country's second multi-party elections. The vote will decide whether President Moi extends his 19 years in office. He is facing more than a dozen opposition candidates, but the opposition in Kenya has remained split along tribal and political lines. Some polling stations have opened late, as our correspondent, Cathy Jenkins, from Nairobi, reports.

People at this one polling station in Nairobi have had a long and frustrating wait for voting to start. Voters began arriving at 5.30 in the morning, determined to be among the first to cast their ballots.

By six o'clock, the official start of polling, the polling clerks were in place; so were the international and local observers who are monitoring the poll and the armed police who are providing security.

But there was no sign of the ballot boxes or ballot papers.

They didn't arrive until one and a half hours later, brought in a bus by the presiding officer.

There then began another delay as the boxes were opened and checked to make sure they were empty.

Two hours after polling should have began, the queue of voters snaked back through the gates of the polling station and on to the road outside.

The people's patience was wearing thin.