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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " I will start with the question by the Member of Parliament for Narok North. We know there are areas which were designated as hardship areas and when one works in a hardship area, he or she has some kind of enhanced salary – commonly known as hardship allowance. It has caused quite a lot of problems because there are neighbouring areas which are not designated. You will find teachers working in those areas will prefer working in the next area which is designated as hardship area and hence causing a problem in those other areas. We have noted several areas and we have created a team with my Principal Secretary and the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmation Action so as to see how to rationalise it. We have a clear criterion so that other deserving areas are not denied the opportunity. You find that even areas which are not deserving are benefiting from the hardship allowance that a number of teachers and public servants would also like to benefit from the same. There is an exercise going on because we have noted that there is clearly a problem as the Member of Parliament has said."
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