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    "id": 1243415,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1243415/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13458,
        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to inform the House that the Ministry developed the Safety Standards Manual for schools to provide guidelines to ensure safety and healthy conditions in the school environment. The manual requires each school to have a school safety sub-committee. It also provides guidance on a number of issues such as skills-based education on prevention of endemic conditions, promotion of environmental sanitation and hygiene practices, provision of safe water and sanitation, protection of children with special needs with regard to their health and hygiene and on taking of immediate steps when there is a threat on an epidemic outbreak. Through our quality assurance teams on the ground, we continue to monitor compliance with the requirements of the manual. So, we have a manual on this. As you are aware, another problem is that we have over 30,000 primary schools. Some of them provide meals to students during lunchtime. We have over 10,000 secondary schools, several TVTs and universities. Apart from the structures that we have as a Ministry, which we must strengthen, we have sub-county directors of education. Some of them were not properly facilitated to move around schools. However, what this administration has done is that with effect from this year, we are giving each one of them a vehicle, such that they can be checking around their schools. As Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary (PS) for Education, it is not physically possible for us to move to each and every school to check on this. Nonetheless, we have insisted that the officers, right from the regional, county and the sub-county level must go to schools. Among other things that they have to check on is to ensure that people comply and conform to the tenets and the provisions of the manual. Yesterday, I had an opportunity of moving to six secondary schools in Siaya County and the Nyanza region. One of the things that is mandatory for me to check is"
}