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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. It is Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who is confusing me. He is laughing as if he is in the village. I rise to support this Motion but with certain reservations. I would like to recommend certain amendments. We need not have much problems with the formula being proposed by the CRA but I think it is a fundamental fact that it is the people who we represent. This debate about geography and demography has to be resolved in favour of demography. We are not against our brothers in the so-called marginalized areas. Another way should be found of compensating them but in areas where we have heavy concentration of population, we think the formula should tilt in favour of the people because we have to put the people first. Even in those areas where there are no people, can we really allocate resources irrespective of the land mass of a county? If there is no single person, what basis would there be for allocating resources? My feeling is that CRA should have a look at this again and put more weight on the population. The proposed 45 per cent is on the lower side. We are talking about minimum 50 per cent, then other ways of affirmative action can be used. But from my county we feel that we are being marginalized, our population is made not to count. That is why we are receiving a raw deal as far as allocation of resources to the counties is concerned Madam temporary Speaker, that is the only recommendation I would like to make. I want it to be known that the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) is a technical body. They are technical advisors to the Senate. It is the Senate which makes this formula and we should be able to amend it ourselves. My proposal for the population is 50 per cent- but let other colleagues come up with other ideas and we come up with a new formula because we are not robots who have to dance to whatever our agents tell us. We have to come up with our own through the Clerk’s Office, which we think should be more empowered. We should look at this formula and the Senate will make the final decision as to what the formula should be. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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