Raila backs Limuru III one man, one shilling push

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Raila backs Limuru III one man, one shilling push
Raila backs Limuru III one man, one shilling push

Africa-Press – Kenya. Azimio leader Raila Odinga has waded into the controversy surrounding the push for one man, one vote, one shilling revenue-sharing formula, stating it is the right way to go. https://shorturl.at/r0jVu

Azimio leader Raila Odinga has waded into the controversy surrounding the push for one man, one vote, one shilling revenue-sharing formula, stating it is the right way to go.

Insisting that he is not a populist and that he is embracing the debate with an open mind, Raila said the country should have the conversation.

“I want to agree with the phrase one man one vote one shilling. I agree totally with this,” Raila told a media briefing on Thursday.

He said devolution is about equity in the sharing of resources in our country, not equality

“That means you take count of the number of people where they are because services are for the people. One of the discussions in Limuru III was the issue of resource sharing in the country Somehow this issue has been misrepresented as if it is discriminating against some parts of the country. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he added.

Raila said the push will not result in discrimination, but ensure each Kenyan gets a fair share of resources “created by our sweat.”

“It cannot be right that some children get more bursary than learners in other parts of the country. This is a conversation if we have it openly, we will be able to convince our people that this is the right way to go. That is why we had proposed it in the BBI,” he stated.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been pushing for the one man, one vote, one Shilling revenue-sharing deal stating that it would favour the Mt Kenya region.

Gachagua urged the people from the Mount Kenya Region to monitor politicians and their utterances to ensure they mark those against the proposal.

Gachagua says the revenue-sharing deal is what the people of Mt Kenya deserved and anyone campaigning against the proposal was not an ally and defender of the region and its people.

However, according to leaders from the North Eastern region, the one-man one-shilling would lead to further marginalisation of their communities.

A section of Meru leaders have also distanced themselves from the revenue-sharing formula.

MPs from the region insisted that the formula propagated by the Deputy President will lead to marginalisation of some counties.

Politicians from the Mt Kenya region have been rooting for the distribution of revenue through the ‘one man-one vote-one shilling allocation’.

They have been insisting that the allocation of resources should be based on population.

Kiambu, Murang’a, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Nyandarua, Laikipia, Meru, Embu and Tharaka Nithi are some of the heavily populated counties.

Under the current revenue sharing formula, population covers 45 per cent, basic equal share (25 per cent), poverty (20 per cent), land area (8 per cent) and fiscal responsibility (2 per cent) which Mt Kenya politicians insist leaves the heavily-populated counties with little cash for development.

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