Turkana Governor Josphat Nanok has urged professionals in the county to present their views on oil revenue share to Parliament before February 28.
Nanok
said it is good for residents to give their opinions on the revenue share debate.
"The National Assembly has called anyone with issues concerning the revenue share to
submit it before February 28.
It's
now your roles as Turkana elites to have a kind of
memorandum
amendment concerning oil revenue
share," Nanok said on Thursday during the
swearing-in
of chief officers at Lodwar Headquarters office.
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The government has withdrawn its earlier
offer of a 10 per cent share of oil revenue to host communities and now proposes five per cent.
The standoff between the National government and the county has elicited mixed reactions in the country.
At one point, the governor
exchanged heated words with President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy president WWilliamRutto at Lodwar town in
March 2017.
"Turkana community has been marginalised for a long time and it's our time to get our right share stated by the constitution of Kenya," Nanok said at the time.
He said; if you give Turkana there right of thirty per cent share of oil revenue you will be heard even more.
"The Jubilee administration has not been sincere about sharing oil proceeds because it does not want Turkana to develop like other counties," he said
Recently, President Uhuru nominated
Nanok's rival in the governor's race John Munyes as CS
for Petroleum and Mining.
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