Put national budget on the table too

Turkana County (71,600 square kilometres) is five times the size of Central Region (11,450 square kilometres). Central Region has a population of 5.5 million, Turkana has 0.93 million.

This reality presents several problems in the quest to provide schools, roads, water, hospitals, and other public goods and services to the county’s residents. Because of the low population density and vast distances involved, it simply costs more to get anything done. The county has undergone decades of neglect by the national government, and you begin to understand why, on balance, Turkana and similarly large “peripheral” counties ought to be getting more per capita budget allocations than smaller counties that comprise our historical political “core”.