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    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank Hon. Tindi Mwale for moving this very important Adjournment Motion. I join my colleagues in paying tribute to the departed young souls and educators at Mukumu Girls High School and the rest of the Mulembe nation. This is a very emotive moment. When a parent takes a child to school, that is their investment and future. A disaster of this magnitude striking at a public school is a wake-up call for all citizens, particularly those of us in leadership. It is because education is a core business of a parliamentarian. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for Education for flying there. I distance myself from my colleagues who are vilifying the Cabinet Secretary. He is not a medic. Our children did not die of an overdose of education, but because of substances that they took into their mouths. It is a health issue rather than an education issue. We must be worried as a nation if two weeks later, we do not have a diagnosis or a pathological report showing the cause of death of our angels at Mukumu. Who knows? It started in one school, it is spreading to others, and it might end up being a national disaster. Thank God the schools are just closing, but that is not a panacea. As a nation, we should be able to use flying doctors and send the best medics in town to go and establish the root cause of that problem and proactively manage it before it finishes a whole generation. On behalf of the people of West Mugirango, I condole with parents who have lost their children. I condole with the teachers – and father was one - because we have lost one of them. Truly, this is not a moment to blame one another, but a moment to sit, reflect and find solutions to save our children. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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