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    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, and thank you Prime Cabinet Secretary for an elaborate discussion on this matter. I have two concerns. First, the Prime Cabinet Secretary is indicating that the report will be tabled in the Cabinet before it comes to the House. I was to join my colleagues who are saying that we need to see the document before that happens. I think it is important. I say this because the Inter-agency Technical Committee that the Prime Cabinet Secretary is referring to was a product of this House. It started around 2018. Early 2019, the entire Departmental Committee on Education responded to a petition by teachers from Taita Taveta Constituency. The Committee travelled to Taita Taveta. It visited all the hardship areas within my county, that is Wundanyi, and one zone in Mwatate and Taveta constituencies. After deliberation in this House, the House resolved that those areas needed to be gazetted as hardship areas. The fact that the report went to the Ministry of Education and then the Ministry of Interior, in their wisdom, they agreed to form the Inter-agency Technical Committee, which has done a good job. However, my challenge has been that from 2021/2022, when the report was done, it is coming to this House three years later. Other than that, it is missing out in very key things. Hon. Millie has talked about challenges in travelling in her constituency. I tell you, it has not mentioned issues around human-wildlife conflict. That is a big issue from where some of us come from! So, this must be one of the considerations in the categorisation. Another critical thing is that he has talked about degazettement of other areas. I do not know, but that can also cause a lot of mayhem in the country. So, I want to agree that the report needs to come to this House. Let us see which areas will be gazetted and which have been declassified so that we can have a debate that will inform this policy. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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