The Moses Wetangula-led 12-member committee has been forced to push their engagements with stakeholders after the Commission on Revenue Allocation gave out new simulations that will see 28 counties lose revenue should the formula be passed.
The CRA simulation took the senate committee by surprise as it tries to end the stalemate that has rocked the House of the last 11 weeks.
Senators have been trying to pass the third criteria of sharing formula among the devolved units but their efforts have yielded no fruits as most Senators view that no county should lose anything.
Before 19 counties mostly drawn from the Coast, North and Lower Eastern were set to lose but now the number has jumped to 28 after a new twist where CRA submitted three options to the committee.
All of the three options given by the CRA when simulated against the Sh 316.5 billion allocated to the counties reversed the reality and indicated that 28 devolved units will lose revenue leaving only 19 counties to gain.
The commission used the 2009 census and poverty index to come up with the contentious formula.
Appearing before the committee on Friday and simulating their formula gainst the 2019 population census and poverty index, the outcome left the senators in a shock as reported by the Daily Nation.
The CRA gave out three options, all of which showed that 28 counties will lose from the allocation 19 will gain should the formula be based on the 2019 population census.
The daily reported that the details come up at a meeting between the committee, National Treasury CS Ukur Yatani, and CRA on Friday.
The 12-member committee led by Senator Moses Wetang’ula (Bungoma) and Johnson Sakaja (Nairobi) was formed to come up with a middle ground against the 11 amendments proposed by various senators.
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The committee will resume its sitting this morning with a focus on the submission by the National Treasury.
The senators are said to be not happy with the submissions made by the CRA with Nation quoting one of them saying, “The submission is of no use. It will only aggravate an already bad situation.”
However sources told the daily that the committee agreed on one thing – in this financial year, each county should get an allocation similar to the last financial year.
