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    "id": 1346546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I agree with you. We cannot designate places as hardship areas based on the number of petitions. I was consulting with the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party. I was telling him that even in my constituency of Kikuyu, there are places where I have many petitions from teachers petitioning that those places be designated as hardship areas. You know the circumstances in each of our constituencies are different. What is hardship in Kikuyu may be heaven in North Horr. We, indeed, need a policy that will guide it. As they look at the marginalisation policy, the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) has a huge responsibility in guiding the Government on what areas would be designated as hardship areas. There is a very good correlation between those areas that benefit from the Equalization Fund and those that would be categorised as hardship areas, so that we do not have a situation where places are designated as hardship, basically driven by petitions. Especially from public servants who want to earn a little bit more than people in other areas based on a place categorised as hardship. It is also true that with the advent of devolution, some places would have been categorised as hardship because it was not easy to access those areas. There was no electricity, water, health facilities and schools. But with the advent of devolution, circumstances have 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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