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    "id": 1357821,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Member for Nyatike on that Petition. This issue of hardship areas has made some of us almost sound like a broken record. I remember we even brought it here in the last Parliament. I brought it on behalf of Gilgil and until now it is still not clear who is supposed to gazette these areas as arid. That means that we cannot retain teachers in rural schools. You will get schools in towns getting over-populated with teachers, but far-flung schools are not able to retain teachers just because of this hardship allowance. However, even as the Public Petitions Committee considers this Petition, the issue is to make it clear to the House who is responsible for the gazettement. Secondly, what are the parameters that are used to decide that an area is arid? For instance, you will get a county like Nakuru not classified as a hardship area, but some areas like my constituency inside the county are hardship areas. So, how do we get these classified? In executing this issue, I hope that the Public Petitions Committee will be able to tell us the parameters, and how to ensure that different constituencies in areas that are not ordinarily considered to be hardship areas are also considered positively. That way, we will have a clear guideline so that this matter does not keep coming up as a sporadic issue from each and every constituency. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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