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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "(Tharaka, DP) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. That Petition is quite timely and it is important that it is investigated along the lines that I brought a Petition to the House for my constituency, Tharaka. Tharaka enjoys hardship allowance when it comes to teachers and the Judicial Service Commission staff, but the rest of the civil servants have been left out. My Petition was based on that element of discrimination on why some civil servants were getting hardship allowance and others were not. The Petition went through the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and a recommendation was made that it was merited. Unfortunately, I was later informed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection that the National Treasury had said that they lacked sufficient funds to implement that recommendation. This is very unfortunate because Tharaka is an arid and semi-arid area and as you said, its terrain is very rocky and those who work there, especially civil servants, have to undergo a lot of strenuous moments going to and from their places of work. As we are all aware, the House is going into election time and I will be reviving this again in the next Parliament, God willing. Those civil servants who have been left out should be considered favorably just like the other ones."
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