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    "id": 675912,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the intervention. I want to thank the Member for Tharaka, who happens to be taller than the Member for Samburu. It is only that you are obstructed because of your sitting position. Hon. Speaker, Tharaka Nithi County is a very unique geographical area in terms of climate. Tharaka District, both South and North and Igambang’ómbe Division, are in a totally different environment compared to Maara and parts of Chuka/Igambangómbe Constituency. That difference in payment of hardship allowances has brought about skewed distribution of workforce because most people do not want to work in certain areas within the same district and county, where civil servants do not earn hardship allowance. Schools and institutions have suffered. There is need to harmonize this by ensuring that other members of the society and public servants who are in those areas also benefit from hardship allowance payment. I want to agree with the Member for Tharaka that there is no difference between teachers and other public servants working in that area, especially given that both categories of public servants are paid using taxpayers’ money. Why would a teacher in Tharaka receive hardship allowance and a civil servant in the same area not receive hardship allowance? There is need to harmonize this issue so that we can have uniformity in payment of emoluments to civil servants. I previously brought this issue to Parliament through a petition on hardship allowance for only Igambangómbe Division of Chuka/Igambangómbe Constituency. Therefore, there is need to ensure that as civil servants in Tharaka North and Tharaka South are being considered, those in Igambangómbe Division, in Chuka/Igambangómbe Constituency, which shares exactly the same climatic conditions, can also be remunerated to ensure that we have uniformity in distribution of resources and salaries. With those remarks, I support the petition."
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