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"content": " Question No. 026/2025, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"content": " Do you want to respond to it now, or can we create a forum for you and the Member?"
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"content": " I think the Member is seeking further consultations because I have answered it thrice. To be very specific, this is a question of overlapping administrative units. The Question is whether it is in Mukaa or Nzawi sub-counties. So, it is very specific and requires specific consultations. We can take it up with the Member of Parliament out of this House. This is the third or fourth time he is asking the same Question."
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"content": " Hon. Nzambia, there can be no better solution in terms of addressing that matter, knowing how that Committee operates, than what the Cabinet Secretary is offering. When the Cabinet Secretary is discharged, please follow him and make arrangements for how you can better address it. If it is not so addressed, bring it back to the Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs, and I can assure you, your Temporary Speaker sits there. We will satisfactorily help you pursue it on behalf of those other Kenyans. Hon. Jared Okello. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The substantive Speaker made an undertaking that I would be given an opportunity to prosecute a matter not directly linked to the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. However, under the spirit of complementarity and collective responsibility, the Cabinet Secretary sits in a vantage position to answer or lend a helping hand where necessary. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are aware that the issue of the classification of areas patterned along hardship and non-hardship areas has become my pet project. For the last three months, we have been haggling with the majority leadership to have a report that was done by the Government through a multi-agency committee, which was headed by one Mr. Sylvester Bolo in the Ministry of Public Service. They went across the country, and NGAO played a pivotal role towards that. A report was done, dubbed: \"Review of Hardship Areas and Paymentof Hardship Allowances .\" The report was ready by the year 2022. For the last three months, the substantive Speaker has given directives times more than number to the majority leadership just to walk to the Office of the President and bring the report here. I acknowledge that we now do not have a substantive Cabinet Secretary for Public Service and a substantive Principal Secretary since the one who was there has been promoted. However, as I said, it is a collective responsibility. Our very good Cabinet Secretary, a very dear friend to me, Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen, a man known to this House, can direct that particular department to bring the report here. The report has categorised those areas to be added to the list of those that attract hardship allowances. Without belabouring very much on this subject, my place is disenfranchised on many fronts. Some civil servants report and immediately seek transfers to other areas. The two neighbouring constituencies, Nyakach and Muhoroni, benefit from hardship allowance. Nyando Constituency is the only place known for perennial flooding. In fact, we are known for the serikali saidia mantra. But we have been sidelined up to this very moment. I believe the report - which I have not put my eyes on - has captured this situation very well. Let the Cabinet Secretary help us to get this report. Let me repeat, for the record, the report is dubbed: \"Review of Hardship Areas and Payment of Hardship Allowances\". The report is by the Ministry of Public Service. The person who headed the team, Mr Sylvester Bolo, has since retired. But he did not retire with the file. Let the file be brought before this House and debated, and appropriate actions will ensue. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for braving long hours today."
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"content": " Cabinet Secretary, does that fall within your mandate, and are you ready to respond to the Question now?"
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"content": " I understand the struggle that my friend, Hon. Okello, is going through and I sympathise with his position. Because we were involved in the report as part of the National Government Administration Officers (NGAO), the principle of collective responsibility and considering that the next Cabinet Secretary for the Public Service still sits in this House, I would offer to push for the release of that report. Part of the reason is that I have also received petitions from across the country, especially from teachers posted to certain areas they consider hardship, yet do not benefit from hardship allowance. I will speak to the relevant officers within the Government to make sure that this is pushed in good time. I can also take up this conversation with Hon. Jared out of this place. I hasten to warn him that should the report require heavy budgetary expenditure, then it may require relooking. There is no problem releasing the report, but in terms of implementation, everybody will be required to come in and support budgetary allocation. Sometimes, the Government needs to expand certain benefits to different areas. However, the challenge is budgetary allocation to support the same. All those considerations will be made. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": " That response cannot elicit further questions."
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