Government, through the Kenya Development Response to Displacement
Impacts Project (KDRDIP), has constructed a mega dam with a capacity to hold 50
million cubic litres of water near the Kenya-Uganda border.
It is located at Lomesepus, Turkana West Sub County,
which is 60km from Uganda and 30km from South Sudan.
Speaking during a two-day tour of Turkana West
Sub-County to assess KDRDIP projects, Principal Secretary in Charge of the
State Department for ASALS and Regional Development, Idris Dokota, said the dam
will help avert conflicts due to water.
Dokota says the interventions will go a long way in
protecting people from moving to neighbouring countries in search of water.
He adds that the KDRDIP has also drilled and equipped
30 boreholes and eight water pans in Turkana West Sub-County.
Already, KDRDIP has drilled and equipped a borehole at
Nadapal Border, near the South Sudan Border.