Youth and gender affairs Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rachael Shebesh has thrown her weight in support of the one-man, one-shilling, one-vote county allocation formula.
Speaking in Githunguri Sub County on Tuesday while giving out Uwezo Funds, Shebesh (pictured) said she did not understand why it had taken so long for senators “to see the sense in the formula”.
She said she had visited places like the vast Ijara Constituency bordering Somalia border which is sparsely populated and yet so vast such that area chiefs don’t know the entire area under their jurisdiction.
“These areas that are sparsely populated get an equal share with areas like Kiambu, but when it comes to bursary allocation a student in Ijara could get up to Sh100,000 while an equal student here gets Sh10,000,” she said.
Shebesh added that on top of enjoying this county allocation the same places enjoy Equalisation Fund a fund that is not available to other areas like Nyandarua, Kiambu or Nakuru.
The CAS said one major legacy President Uhuru Kenyatta will leave is having the one-man, one-vote, one-shilling formula intact and operational.
“The senators should demonstrate patriotism in this very hot issue, they should avoid politicising the issue, it's not nuclear science to understand such a small logic,” Shebesh said.
On politics, Shebesh urged politicians to stop the 2022 campaigns, saying all the elected leaders have a mandate running up to 2022 to serve the electorate.
“Uhuru has tamed his troops all through, no one is throwing insults some of us can really talk but we have been restrained to first throw our weight on development,” she said.
In a thinly veiled barb aimed at Deputy President William Ruto, Shebesh said there are a number of projects presided over by the DP which have stalled and remain an eyesore to the public.
Kiambu Woman Rep Gathoni Wamuchomba who had accompanied Shebesh supported the formula saying allocating bursaries, Uwezo Fund and other grants from the government has proved to be tricky in the densely populous areas like Kiambu
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