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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to also make a comment or two. I also want to thank Dr. Otichilo for bringing this Motion before the House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the survey that we are complaining about was carried out in 2005. At that time, we did not have a new Constitution. Also, the configuration of the thinking of the Ministry of Planning and Treasury was centralized control of resources, as opposed to devolved control of resources that are available within the country, as required in the new Constitution. The survey design that was done at that time was based on 69 districts in the country. We also know that, that poverty survey was not done the way we would expect this sample to be picked. The sample was simply picked from 69 randomly distributed districts. In a country such as ours where there are obvious disparities, we would have expected even in the sampling of a sample, that there is differentiation. You cannot take the sample of Tana Delta District and put it together with one of the districts in Nairobi and one other district, say, in another high potential area or town, and simply mix them together and say that you will pick 69 districts. If you are doing serious resource allocation, there must be sampling within the sampling itself, so that there is a differentiation of high potential areas and those which are obviously not high potential. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this statistics is critical because it is the basis upon which all the revenue allocation is going to be done in this country. We are unhappy that this same sample was used for Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and is also being used by the Commission for Revenue Allocation and, yet, these figures by their very method of extraction, are completely unfair and unacceptable. The method of sampling those districts is also unfair, unacceptable and inadequate. Even at the time when they were picking the 69 district, there were more districts in this country. More than double that amount existed within the country. I believe that if the Government is serious about the implementation of the Constitution, it should now order a fresh poverty index survey. This is because, then, we will be fair in terms of allocation of resources within the rest of the Republic. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government needs to take what Parliament is saying today with the seriousness it deserves. This is because each county in this Republic will be allocated the resources that we are collecting in terms of taxation. Therefore, that sampling was not correct and reflective of the economic realities. That sampling was done before the implementation of the new Constitution. With the new Constitution we need to, therefore, start on a clean slate. This is because if we do not do it properly some of our areas, through these false figures, are going to be marginalized for a long time to come. This is like rigging an election before it has even been done. Some areas have already been given figures against others. I really urge the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to do a fresh survey. We want the Treasury to allocate resources for this exercise, because it is a matter of life and death for all the counties which are going to be in place after the general election. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to strongly support this Motion."
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