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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to add my voice on Sen. Tom Ojienda's Statement about the safety of pupils and students in schools across the country. We have been experiencing a lot of unrest, including fires in Dagoretti and all these schools. It is time that we stop addressing the issue in one way. We need to look at what is causing this unrest. I went to my former school, St. George's, to check on the fire safety measures and I realized that a lot of schools take for granted the policy given some years back of removing the grills from the windows and ensuring that the dormitories are left open. In all the fire cases where we have lost students, we have seen that the dormitories were locked and they had grills. I urge the Ministry of Education to have a team to go assess all the schools and provide a checklist. It should not be about a 67-page policy that is there. Most of the people implementing will not read 67 pages. We will be making some headway if it can be reduced to two A4s of a checklist of what should be there and what should not be there. There has been a conversation about abolishing boarding schools. That is not the way to go. There are so many reasons why parents choose to take their children to boarding schools. Just because we have a problem or a calamity in one or two boarding school, you cannot say that boarding schools must be shut down. We have seen accidents happening in day schools, but we do not call for the day schools to be shut down. I call upon the Ministry of Education led by Hon. Julius Migosi to ensure that there is a checklist provided because we are lacking a checklist from the Ministry of Education to make sure that our dormitories, particularly are safe. Safety is not only from fires, but also from intruders and all sorts of other risks. I thank you."
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