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    "id": 1269948,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance. I am a very big fan of Petitions. I find them to be effective and one of the quickest ways in which this House dispenses justice to the people that are represented through the representatives here. I have listened keenly to this Petition. It raises something that is both legal and extra-legal in the sense that it is a policy decision. The Committee which you will give the opportunity to listen to this Petition will guide us. You are aware that the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), conducted an extensive study after being moved by this House. This is because, for a long time, this country was used to a description of hardship areas as certain parts of the country. It began with a very erratic and wholescale definition of what a hardship area is. If you read the reports of this House, you will realize that there were certain regions that used to be referred to, back in the days, in the previous Constitutional dispensation, as provinces that were considered to be hardship areas. Eventually, with the guidance of the Committee on Finance and Budget of this House, the CRA updated its reading and appreciation of this particular matter. It noted that while in a county as rich as Kiambu, there are certain parts of that county that qualify as marginalized areas. This is because of their placing, agricultural dispensation and so many other factors that will involve the poverty index and all those things that go into consideration of what an arid and semi-arid area is. Therefore, listening to the petitioners, first, it is clear that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is still living in the old dispensation of classifying hardship areas as constituencies, yet we have moved from constituencies and we now have wards. Out of the 1,500 wards in the country, a good number of them have been classified as hardship areas or arid and semi-arid areas. Therefore, I expect that the Committee that you will give this Petition will guide us, so that as a country we can have a unified policy that applies to teachers, police, for purposes of the Equalization Fund and all these considerations. It is the same people, country, and geographical location. We cannot have different classifications for different forms of services. Therefore, that will be the biggest The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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