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    "id": 1233825,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "somebody speaking about, to oversee the implementation of all those things. I must not forget that it further has the task of creating awareness in schools on the prudent management of water resources. This is where we have gone wrong. The disconnect between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health is what has led to this problem. I have heard one of the Members raise concern that, up to this point, we do not know the disease that caused the death of students in Mukumu Girls High School and all the other schools that have been affected. Until now, the Ministry of Health is not giving this country a daily update on their discovery of the reason for the deaths given that several students are still in hospitals. Yesterday, one of them was still on oxygen but the Ministry of Health is quiet. The Ministry of Education has continuously pushed students to schools without expanding the facilities, as the Hon Member who spoke before me has said. We have not increased the supply of water and number of staff to Mukumu Girls High School, but we have made sure that there are more students in the boarding school. Boarding schools are being pushed to the threshold and are starting to burst or have already burst! This is just a tip of the iceberg of what we shall see. It is high time the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, who is seated here called the Ministry of Education and any other stakeholder, including the Ministry of Health, to give a proper report. You do not intervene in the case of deaths of students by rushing to a school to sack the board and the school head. The Headteacher who was sacked is a teacher of Literature and English and she can only use this to interpret what happened in the Literature book: “ An Enemy of the People”, where Dr. Stockman realises that there is dirt in water but the people cannot see. It was not necessary to sack the school head and harass the board. The real problem lies with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. They should in fact reinstate that principal and go for the real reason why we are losing our students. Finally, the boarding schools menace must be addressed because we will continue having those challenges which arise because of congestion. We need to decongest those schools."
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