LOCAL NEWS08.05.2011 - By Zacheaus Otaba - Leaders from Turkana have warned the government of neglect

The Turkana leaders today bitterly expressed their disappointments at how the government is neglecting the people of this region. Led by the Turkana county council vice chairperson David Ekoei, the leaders said that it is so shameful for Kenyan leaders to pretend as if they don't know what is happening in Turkana.
Expressing their views to the top political leaders, led by William Ruto, Samuel Poghisio and Eugene Wamalwa, who had visited the region following the previous crisis, they said that the issue of insecurity and hunger is alarming. They said that this was the main cause of the last massacre that has continued to fetch peoples' lives.
However the leaders said that the county has the potentiality of producing food, that is enough to feed the whole nation. Speaking at Moi gardens today, where they had gone to raise money for two groups in Loima district, Ruto said that this is only happening because of poor governance in the country.
Ruto who is the MP for Eldoret North, called for the government to deploy security officers from all departments to the region, other than keeping them in the camps. He said that there may be no other enemy that is above that small group from Ethiopia that swept several lives early this month. On food, he said river Turkwel should be used for irrigation, to grow that can feed a large population of people. More than 700,000/= were raised in aid of the two groups, to promote development in the grassroots. They were accompanied by the area MP David Ekwee Ethuro East African MP Christopher Nakuleu.