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    "id": 333424,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Report. I want to congratulate the Budget Committee for the good work they have done. They have done a lot of consultation, and I think they have come up with what I would say is a very fair formula for the allocation of the proposed resources. However, having said that, I want to raise some concerns that should be looked into by the coming Senate. The first one is the issue of statistics. This is a very important issue. The formula that has been proposed hinges on good credible statistics. If we are not going to have good and credible quantitative statistics, then this formula is not going to achieve what it intends to. I want to say that when we have the next Senate, one of the its biggest assignment is to work in collaboration with the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to ensure that the issue of population is addressed, particularly in those areas where we saw very glaring anomalies that do not actually support demographic theories. I do not want to mention those areas because we have talked about them. We will need to look at that population afresh Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, if you remember early this year, I brought a Motion to this House contesting poverty indices that were being used to allocate our CDF money. I said that those indices were based on statistics that were faulty because the sampling strategy and value were very low and were mainly based--- The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics did most of the sampling mainly in urban areas and not in rural areas. The sampling test was very low. That was why you found some parts of areas like Kajiado had the lowest poverty index, but if you went to the rest of Kajiado County, you would see a difference. What I am saying is that this is an area, again, where we shall need credible information. I also want to support hon. Anyang-Nyong’o on the issue of land area. We need to look at the utility of land. This is one area again that we need to look at. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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