Kirinyaga Woman Representative Jane Njeri Maina has been ranked top performer in the latest survey by Infotrak dubbed CountyTrak performance
Njeri who is serving her first term in office scored 52 per cent in the ranking to emerge top yet again.
“I’m deeply humbled to be ranked as the best performing Woman Representative for the second year in a row,” she told the Star.
“From the data, it’s clear that Kenyans still don’t comprehend the role of Woman Representatives and more civic engagement ought to be done by the 47 county MPs and other gender organizations.”
Njeri credited the impressive performance in the latest survey to several programmes she has rolled out in her county such as Tupange Kesho.
“We have a very robust Tupange Kesho program that focuses on education - where we give full scholarships to total orphans and children from child-headed families,” she said.
“We proceed to further sponsor those who don’t attain university entry grades for TVET courses and diploma courses.”
The ranking comes weeks after a Parliamentary scorecard report released by Mzalendo ranked the MP the most vocal youth speaker in the National Assembly for the year 2024.
According to Mzalendo, the MP contributed to debates and other issues of national importance 37 times.
The performance was exclusively determined by the number of times individual MPs speak in Parliament (speech counts) and as captured in the Parliamentary Hansard, the official Parliamentary record.
In the same Infotrak survey, Makueni County MP Rose Museo Mumo was second with a 46 per cent rating, a position she tied with her Homa Bay counterpart Bensuda Osogo Atieno.
Kakamega woman rep Elsie Muhanda was the fourth-best performer with a rating of 45 per cent.
West Pokot county MP Rael Chepkemoi and her Kisumu Counterpart Ruth Odinga tied for the fifth spot with a rating of 43 per cent.
The interviews for the survey were conducted between October – December 2024 covering all 47 counties with a sample size of 39,795.
Data was collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and analysed using SPSS.
The questionnaire was structured using 1-10 Likert scale being applied on each indicator where 1 was very poor and 10 was excellent.
The mean was computed for each Sub-Indicator of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to get the Index for that Specific KPI.
The Overall County performance Index was then computed by taking the average of the KPIs.
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