Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 1730.

• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the then Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, vide a circular dated 21st October 2009, approved the rationalisation and harmonisation of hardship areas and payment of hardship allowances to teachers and civil servants; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the circular outlined and approved criteria for establishing the designation of a hardship area and undertook to gazette a new list of hardship areas and areas degazetted due to development that had taken place since they were last gazetted; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the Government approved and effected as increment Kshs10,000 for civil servants working in areas classified as ‘extreme hardship areas’ and Kshs5,000 for civil servants in areas classified as ‘moderately developed areas’; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, Ndaragwa Constituency, though classified as a hardship area as per the said circular, has not and does not benefit from Government support accorded to such areas; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, Ndaragwa Constituency borders Laikipia County and both have similar climatic conditions and civil servants, especially teachers, prefer working in Laikipia County, where they benefit from the hardship allowance; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the residents of Ndaragwa Constituency feel discriminated and disadvantaged because of this omission by the Government because they are denied the services of trained personnel posted to the area, among the other attendant Government support; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the then Minister for Public Service, Hon Dalmas Otieno, in response to Question No.388, filed by Hon John Mbadi – now in the House Leadership – tabled a Ministerial Statement in Parliament on 12th October 2010, which included a Government circular dated 21st October 2009, assuring Parliament that the affected areas, which included Ndaragwa Constituency, would benefit from Government support accorded to such hardship areas; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, this has occasioned non-provision of other support programmes such as school feeding programmes, leading to low enrolment especially in primary schools as parents prefer to take their children to schools bordering Ndaragwa that is in Laikipia Constituency, which benefit from the school feeding programme; view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, efforts to resolve the matter with the relevant Ministry have been futile; and, view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the issues in respect of which this Petition is made are not pending before any court of law, constitutional or statutory body. Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security; (i) Causes the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs to accord and treat Ndaragwa Constituency as a hardship area and implement the said Government Circular of 12th October 2009; and, (ii) Makes any other order or direction that it deems fit in the circumstances of this Petition. And your Petitioners will ever pray. view