Local news - 24.05.2011 - By Kodet Philip and Edaan Daniel - Social Auditors Stakeholders Training at Kanamkemer.

Social audit stakeholders were early today trained at kanamkemer chiefs office In a training organized by the justice and peace commission of the catholic diocese of Lodwar facilitated by deputy coordinator Mr. Christopher Losiapat. The training which focuses on governance and accountability, was aimed at sensitizing the community based social auditors on the importance of social auditing, collecting data regarding to the public funded projects,linking the community with the justice and peace office in the matters regarding to all public funds allocated to their area and finalizing documentation of the data collected from the field regarding the public funds in the area. According to the facilitator Mr. Christopher Losiapat the community should be aware of the funded projects and also check and make follow-ups in the implementation of a given community projects. he also informed the community that it's their right to ask how the funds have been used. However Dominic Lokwayen and Lazarus Khisa were the trained community based social auditors who will help in mobilizing the community in acquiring the basic information. Mr. khisa challenged the community to coordinate and cooperate with them in order to get sufficient and reliable information. At the same time at kanamkemer chiefs office, community were happy to receive the distribution of animal feeds that was donated by the ministry of livestock to help support the pastoralists from the continuing drought which has left a number of animals malnourished and others dead. According to the area chief the feeds are less compared to the number of the residents and he appealed to the government to bring more and enough feeds to rescue the remaining animals from the escalating drought.