The Education Cabinet Secretary, Julius Ogamba, on Sunday, May 11, made a plea to the Members of Parliament concerning the contentious issue of some regions being on the cusp of being deregistered as hardship allowance, as per the 2019 inter-agency technical committee report on hardship area reclassification Speaking in Laikipia, one of the counties which is on the list of counties at risk of being removed from the classification as a hardship area, Ogamba promised that his ministry would intervene.
He called on the MPs to back his efforts and pass legislation dictating that if one ministry is considered a hardship area, all other civil servants in the area are also to receive hardship allowances. "You are going to help us in Parliament.
Let us harmonise and know that if it is a hardship area for one ministry, it is a hardship area for another ministry," he stated.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba during a meeting at his office in Nairobi on March 4, 2025.
