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    "id": 1157692,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157692/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13317,
        "legal_name": "Moses Nguchine Kirima",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Petition. When the Committee is considering the Petition before us, let it consider all aspects that are said to be hardship areas. I am happy that my friend, the Member for Tharaka, has mentioned that all schools in his constituency which neighbour schools in my constituency, some have a distance of about 200 metres apart, are declared hardship areas, but those in my place are not. The environment, conditions and amenities are the same, and so, one wonders why this discrimination. Who are the people going round describing some areas as hardship areas? Let us have public participation all over the country, so as to review what has been stated as hardship areas. In places like Kiamuri in Central Imenti, you find a school has only two teachers with eight classrooms and about 300 students because other teachers are across the boundary on the Tharaka side, which is gazetted as a hardship area. Then, some people say that students are failing in some areas yet it is the State which is facilitating the same through declaring some areas as hardship areas and leaving others. My prayer is that when the Committee will be considering this, it should come up with an idea of how to go round, de-classify and classify the same, so that all the areas are included. 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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