When it comes to a constant figure for all of them, that gives undue advantage to constituencies with fewer wards.
This is a good formula, which was long overdue and should be carried on. It was not a good idea to have a constant figure for all constituencies without looking at different factors.
For instance, poverty index and land mass should have been put into consideration before they came up with the rollout of any sharing formula.
This formula is agreeable to all because it does not look at the Northern part of Kenya alone but all constituencies with many wards, which is perfect.
For example, my constituency is gaining by nearly Sh20 million, which is welcome for now.
What I will tell colleagues fighting this formula is to understand that Kenya is unequal. There are parts of the country that are still developing and others that are marginalised.
With that understanding, they should provide more resources to those areas because they are part of Kenya.
Social amenities can only be made available by the provision of more funds to those areas lagging behind.
In fact, we need to improve that formula more than what we have currently. We need to have another factor like poverty because everyone agrees that Northern Kenya is still behind, even with devolution. There is still a lot to be done.
With NG-CDF, we should be able to provide more resources to marginalised areas like Northern Kenya.
Then there is geographical coverage because there is a constituency such as Turkana North, which is the size of Rwanda. You can imagine the resources it will require for bursaries when at the same time we are supposed to be building schools.
Turkana North MP spoke to the Star
