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    "id": 1547211,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1547211/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. The issue of hardship allowance and declaration of hardship areas may today be termed historical injustice. It dates back to just days after Independence when the then Minister for Economic Planning and Development, the late Joseph Thomas Mboya, came up with Sessional Paper No.1 of 1965. This is where, for the first time, it was proposed that productive areas had to get more resources than areas that are less productive. To compensate those areas that are less productive, hardship allowance was introduced. Unfortunately, as we speak today, if we go by the way we make our budgets, you will find that some counties that are considered to be more productive get the chunk of our budget, while those that are thought to be less productive get very little. This is unjust. It cannot be protected anymore. We should think about it. Secondly, you will find that there are areas declared as hardship like Tharaka Constituency. This applies to teachers and the Judicial Service Commission staff. Next door is Chuka/Igambang’ombe Sub-County which is exactly like Tharaka, yet they do not get hardship allowance. When we look at it across the country, it is unfair or unjust. It should now be equalised so that hardship areas which are less productive are given more resources to catch up with other areas in Kenya so that we have some parity of some sort. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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