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.
