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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.T. Anyanga",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Toboso Anyanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First and foremost, I support the appointment of Dr. Jane Kiringai as the Chairperson of the CRA. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and I had an opportunity not only to interact with the members of this Commission but also with the nominee to the position of the Chairperson. As a Committee, none of the candidates either for position of commissioners or Chairperson was disappointing. I have absolutely no doubt about her academic, professional or technical qualifications having grown from a very junior position in the Civil Service working for the National Treasury and having other experiences within other public institutions that deal with economic research, budgeting, finance and planning up to her current position of being the Country Representative of the World Bank. If anyone was keen to look at the CV of Dr. Kiringai, he or she will know that she started off as a mathematician and statistician, but very quickly changed her career to economics.Within a span of about six years, she had done two degrees: one in mathematics and statistics and another in economics. For me, her appointment at this time is crucial because she is going to lead the second CRA in the history of our nation. In as much as people may not appreciate what the first Commission led by Mr. Micah Cheserem did, given the circumstances under which it was created and the many forces that were working against devolution and the many institutions that were involved in the devolution of services, I want to believe that it did pretty a good job. At least it was able to develop a formula which has been used in the last four years. We have seen the weaknesses and the strengths of this formula. The second Commission under Dr. Jane Kiringai has a better opportunity to come up with an even better formula which could be applied in revenue allocation in the years to come. It is true that the first Commission used very basic parameters like population, poverty index and geographical land mass of specific counties. This is the case and yet we know that when you talk about allocation of resources, those are very basic parameters to consider. I expect the Dr. Jane Kiringai-led CRA to go a little bit deeper and be more scientific in trying to develop a formula that will ensure that every county in Kenya gets its fair share of the national cake. It is sad to note that under the current formula, there are counties that truly deserve more resources but because the parameters used are very general, they have lost out to other counties that have latent wealth. Such wealth has not been captured under this formula. I have in mind a factor such as infrastructural development, which was never captured in the first formula. If you compare Kakamega County with Kiambu County, you will find that they are almost similar in all characteristics, particularly in terms of population. However, if you look at the infrastructural development of Kiambu vis-a-vis the one in Kakamega, you will realise that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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