LOCAL NEWS - By OKOTH PETER - TURKANA ASK FOR MORE CONSTITUENCIES AND WARDS

Turkana West leaders, through Turkana West Leaders and Stake Holders Forum today, have asked to be given additional Constituency and award.
Giving their views to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) at Anne Nanjala Education Centre, Lodwar, the leaders said that even though they appreciated the decision to split their former constituency, Turkana North, into two, their was need to create another additional constituency to be called Lokichoggio and rename the one which has been created from Turkana West to Kakuma Constituency. They also asked the commission to consider increasing the 8 wards they have been given to 9.
Turkana South leaders who have been awarded a new constituency to be known as Turkana East also asked to additional constituency to known as Tirikwel. They also proposed some of their wards to be split because they were vast and therefore it will not be easy to be managed effectively the way they have been merged.
The issue of mismatched wards played out when Peter Deric Emase Ejore presented his views asking the Commission to correct the areas which have been matched wrongly be corrected. He pointed out Napetet as one of them saying that it had been wrongly moved to Kangatosa in Kerio.