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    "id": 823327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "The challenge we have is that the gazettement of the hardship areas was done a long time ago and those boundaries are still being used to date. However, the geographical arrangement of those boundaries has since changed. So, there are very many areas that need to be included on the list of hardship areas. I will not specifically talk about my constituency, but I will borrow a leaf from the Members who have looked at this matter as a national issue that needs to be addressed nationally by the Committee. There are areas that have been gazetted as hardship areas, but certain schools and certain employees of Government in those particular pockets do not earn hardship allowance. There are also areas which were gazetted as hardship areas, but they are no longer so. The policy was based on climatic changes, geographical factors and other issues. It is important to have a total review of everything. The balancing of teachers during deployment has been made difficult because there are teachers who may want to teach in hardship areas in order to get hardship allowance. They actually would not like it were they to be removed from their stations. In some instances, you may find that what separates a hardship area from a non-hardship area is just a road, say, of one-kilometre length. So, it is a matter that needs total overhaul. Even organisations like the TSC can re-distribute teachers in this country without being affected by the issue of hardship areas."
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