Kiteto councilors committed themselves to demand for explanations, justifications and clarifications from their authorities in the course of executing their roles in serving the Tanzanian citizens. This was said by Kiteto councilors during a training on their roles and responsibilities in social accountability monitoring (SAM) conducted by the Policy Forum Local Government Working Group to 31 councilors in Kiteto on 18th-23rd July 2016.

During the training councilors pointed out that, the challenge they face is that they do not have access to strategic documents in the SAM processes such as the Strategic Plan, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework. When they were given the Local Government Financial Memorandum councilors admitted that they had never seen the document and after going through it they said the document is very useful in executing their financial roles and they dedicated themselves to use the document in future.

Councilors also revealed that, in practice the budget process at the local level is not implemented as required for example it is not usually the case that the budget is shared with them during the council committee after it has come from the District Consultative Committee (DCC) normally what happens is vice versa.

Emmanuel John Papian, an MP of Kiteto during the training insisted to councilors that they should be accountable in serving their citizens and that it is crucial that they attend the village meetings because this is the space where most of the decisions which concerns the citizens are made.