The new County Revenue Allocation, CRA formula is what will steer this country forward, it is the formula that will make Counties more resourceful, with citizens who have equitable access to exploit opportunities that have been for years unavailable. With it will come an exponential growth in the country’s GDP as a majority of Counties will benefit and total to 29 Counties.
However, there are those Counties whose leaders are hell-bent on creating unnecessary detraction and noise shouting that they are entitled to the previous formula that ensured they were allocated billions that have been largely underutilised and unused and thereby denying other Kenyans a fair share of resource allocation. Out of a Sh100 billion Kenyan economy, Counties that are shouting for more allocation only contribute Sh3.2 billion with the rest coming from other Counties that are working towards creating greater amounts of wealth for the country.
It makes no sense for North Eastern Counties to have a greater allocation of revenue yet they only contribute 3 per cent of the GDP while Nairobi and Kiambu alone contribute 30 per cent of the GDP. This means that such Counties that have rode on the propaganda of marginalisation and want to continue sucking out resources from other counties where people work hard to maximize on the available resources.
The country has been on a losing streak from the second revenue allocation that was based on four disbursement parameters but the new revenue allocation offers ten parameters that include population, poverty indices and landmass, and will ensure Counties that were receiving fewer funds get more while those that were getting more get a small reduction. Such utterances of marginalisation are only meant to ensure overdepency on other resourceful and productive Counties.
