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    "id": 235621,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/235621/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Akaranga",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 299,
        "legal_name": "Moses Epainitous Akaranga",
        "slug": "moses-akaranga"
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    "content": "In an effort to harmonise hardship areas and the allowances payable to all public servants, an inter-ministerial task force was constituted. The task force listed various districts and came up with findings or observations, and recommended that the criteria for determination of hardship areas be redefined and areas designated as hardship be harmonised within the public service. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are financial implications in this issue. It was observed that an additional Kshs1.2 billion, per year, was required to harmonise the disparity between the teachers' and civil servants' rates. In this regard, my Ministry is liaising with the Ministry of Finance for additional funding. It is suspected that the required amount will be factored in the next financial year. In conclusion, the intention of the Government is to harmonise the areas and rates payable to all public servants and eliminate the existing disparities. Owing to the remarkable strides made by the Government since Independence to equitably develop all parts of the country, areas initially gazetted as hardship should ideally reduce and not increase. It is not, therefore, justified to identify and gazette new hardship areas. I will now table the Report on the Review of the Hardship Areas and Allowances in the Public Service."
}