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    "id": 935155,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/935155/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 856,
        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
        "slug": "dennitah-ghati"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. At the outset, I support the Bill. Education, as we know, is intended to be a process that helps a particular group of people, students or any other relevant persons to receive or obtain systematic instruction that will help them to move from a point of view where they were ignorant or not adequately equipped and where they do not have skills to one that they do. This Amendment Bill is clear and I would like to thank the Member for coming up with it. We have a law in place on the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), but this amendment Bill points to the fact that curriculum in this country has not, in terms of its coverage, included disaster risk reduction measures. Education is intended not to just give information but also skills. There are cases in which students or pupils and staff are caught up in unforeseen disasters. A curriculum must be the basis for ensuring that we have an integrated and coherent sense of getting information. A curriculum that does not include disaster reduction and management strategies does not help us reduce disasters and is, therefore, wanting. The principal object of this Bill speaks directly to what would be required in terms of the framework for acquiring knowledge, skills and drills on security. With that, there would be a very clear indication of how pupils, teachers or staff in schools would respond should there be any form of disaster, whether it is an outbreak of fire or some other form of unexpected attack or occurrences. They would know how to evacuate. Should there be some harm or injury that has been experienced? They should know how to apply first aid. As we have seen before, all kinds of challenges crop up in our schools. They would also be trained to have the ability to sense danger. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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