{"id":123460,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/123460/?format=json","text_counter":40,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ruteere","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":92,"legal_name":"Silas Muriuki Ruteere","slug":"silas-ruteere"},"content":"asked the Minister of State for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands:- (a) whether he could consider placing Buuri District under the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) Development Programme; and, (b) whether the Government could also consider gazetting the district as a hardship area for civil servants and teachers working in the district and pay them hardship allowances."}