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    "content": "to collect the raw data. It could be the collecting and interpreting that data. For example, there will be information for every ward from the data already collected by Non- governmental Organisations (NGOs) working together with the KNBS. That information will be acceptable if it has gone through validation period. There is also a key reason why there must be county statistics office at any given time. This is because the population keeps changing and it might change within the five years that you have a governor in a county. For example, the population in Nairobi during the day is not the same at night. Somebody told us that Nairobi receives two million people and that is statistics. Therefore, Governor (Dr.) Kidero should know how many people he has to take care of from 5.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. He should know how many toilets should be provided in order to take care of these people; how many parking spaces are required so that they can accommodate the people and what means of transport need to be put in place to ensure that they take care of the population. Therefore, it can also be brought to the Senate because census is done at night, Nairobi could have two, three or four million people but it could have another two million people during the day. When we do division of revenue here and say we should divide revenue based on the census of 2009 that was done at night, who takes care of the service delivery that Nairobi, Nakuru or Uasin counties provide during the day? We may come to a conclusion that the two million people who come to Nairobi also bring more money to Nairobi instead of Kiambu. So, it is necessary to add the resources to them. It may be necessary to capture that for purpose of delivery of services to those people who come to Nairobi but sleep in Murang’a, Kiambu, Kajiado or Machakos. Many people say they live in Nairobi when they truly live in Machakos County because they get almost all their services in Nairobi and that is important for those statistics. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us to know how many people are being hired or employed by the county public service at any given time. When we talk about recurrent expenditure, there must be transparency of information. We are told all the money goes to recurrent expenditure but when you go to a particular ward and ask them what their recurrent expenditure is, they are unable to identify people who have been employed from that ward yet they are punished holistically without getting services of those who are employment by the county government. This is a noble idea and I congratulate Sen. Lesuuda for proposing the establishment of the county statistics office as an independent and important office. I do not even know whether my county has a county statistics office. I doubt that. Maybe the first statistician in the county is only reporting to the KNBS and, therefore, the Ministry of Devolution and Planning at the national level. Who is the officer coordinating matters of statistics and who is the chief officer in charge of statistics matters? Secondly, she has proposed that we should create the county statistics board. This will make it more corporate and accountable and they will have some oversight. The composition of membership to the board has also been provided. Perhaps, we might need to add one or two people who come from independent entities or institutions. We have also witnessed and suffered a situation where the oversight role of county assemblies is lacking to ensure that they put pressure on the county executive to carry out proper 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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