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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "This Motion is absolutely important as we discuss the issue of unequal remuneration across the country. The same Constitution that established so many constitutional commissions with powers to do this, I feel they have failed us. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have the TSC, we have the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), we have the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHRC), we have the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC), Commission on Administration of Justice, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), and the 47 County Public Service Boards, all of them mandated by the Constitution to implement the Constitution and to apply the principle of equity and equality. You would have imagined that by the time we have done 15 years, the SCR and the Public Service Commission would have by now helped us to have a uniform definition of hardship areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, you can see clearly, that we are going to spend more money to do something that commissions have received funds for and salaries for 15 years and they have not helped us to do this. In fact, what they have done has contributed to breaching Article 27 of the Constitution on equality and non-discrimination. I would like to urge this Senate to make this an urgent issue; and summon the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and all those commissions to find out why point X and not point Y qualifies to be a hardship area. All of us in the Senate were recently in Kilifi. You will agree with me, Kilifi is one of the areas that through our own eyes we can define as being marginalized. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are workers, not just teachers, policemen, and even public servants in other areas who would go there and try their best but they end up resigning because of the hardship areas. Hardship allowance is one thing that incentivizes those who are undergoing hardships to hold on as we hopefully get the country to bridge the inequality gaps and bring development in these areas. Clearly, we can see that the tools that we put in the Constitution to assist us in bridging these gaps are not doing their job. They are not interpreting their work as they ought to interpret. It is my view that this level of inequality needs to be looked at because it is at the core of undermining the right to access education for children in Kilifi, and for children in other areas that have not been defined as hardship areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, maybe we should even ask, the Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Education to find out how many teachers the TSC has deployed per school in some of these areas, comparable to the number of teachers that have been deployed to some areas. When the local authorities were devolved, we found out that some areas had an over-employment of people while other areas were struggling to have people. On the aspect of nursing, for example, we had counties such as Mandera which were struggling to keep enough nurses in their hospitals while others were struggling how to reduce the number of nurses that they had. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a Senate, we must reach a level that we start doing human resource audits to find out how many of these resources are serving county X 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
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