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    "id": 913008,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/913008/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, while supporting this Petition on issues of hardship, allow me to say two things which I think the Committee needs to deal with. We need to take a decision and agree that a survey needs to be done afresh in this country. Some of these areas classified as hardship areas do not make sense at all. You would find in the same constituency areas that are worse than the ones classified as hardship. Even when it comes to paying hardship allowances, you would find some public servants are paid while others are not. For example, I was in Mfangano, and despite the fact that teachers there are paid hardship allowance all other Government officers working in that Island do not get hardship allowance. The question is: Why some personnel working for the Government are paid while others are not? You will also find a place which is, say, 100 meters from tarmac in Mbita Constituency is considered for hardship allowance just because, theoretically, the place used to be an island. There are other areas in Mbita which are more disadvantaged because they do not have roads and water and yet the personnel there are not considered for hardship allowance. As the Committee deals with this issue which Hon. Kioni has brought forth, there is need to redo the assessment of hardship areas in this country. Based on what is happening, we are not even sure how these areas were classified. Probably some people were influencing the classification and that is not right. Thank you. I support."
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