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    "content": "Hon. Members, Standing Order No.225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any Petition, other than those presented by a Member. Further, Article 119 of the Constitution provides for the right of any person to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority, including petitioning the House to enact, amend or repeal any legislation. Hon. Members, in this regard, I wish to report to the House that my Office has received a Petition from Mr. Fredrick Gaya of P.O. Box 10, Kendu-Bay, calling for the gazettement of Rachuonyo North Sub-County as a hardship area in order to improve education standards through infrastructure development, digitalisation, career progression and provision of adequate number of teachers in the area. In his Petition, the petitioner avers that Rachuonyo North Sub-County is currently hamstrung by prevailing hardship conditions that are a direct result of dire poverty levels in the area. In his view, the Government holds a substantial part of the blame for this situation on account of historical neglect of the region and through its abdication of its constitutionally-mandated responsibilities of equitable sharing of national resources. Subsequently, this abdication of responsibility has adversely affected both teachers and learners in various and extensive ways. Further, the petitioner is convinced that the Government has portrayed an element of discrimination against Rachuonyo North Sub-County by denying its teachers hardship allowances and better staffing whilst providing the same facilities to Suba North and Suba South sub-counties despite the fact that all three sub-counties are located in Homa Bay County. Hon. Members, the petitioner highlights the plights plaguing Rachuonyo North Sub- County as being exemplified by lack of factories, barren sandy soils, rugged and rocky terrain, poor rainfall, perennial floods, and devastating poverty that continues to affect education standards in the area. He thus seeks the intervention of this House in, among other things, securing the gazettement of Rachuonyo North Sub-County as a hardship area in order to improve education standards through infrastructure development, digitisation of basic education, career progression and provision of adequate number of teachers in the area. Hon. Members, having determined that the matters raised by the petitioner are well within the authority of this House, I order that pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 227(1), this Petition be committed to the Departmental Committee on Education and Research. The Committee is required to consider the Petition and report its findings to the House and to the petitioner in accordance with Standing Order No.227(2). Thank you, Hon. Members."
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