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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Bill. At the outset, I support this Bill 100 per cent. Let me start by congratulating Hon. Joyce Emanikor. She is an honourable Member of this House whom I have closely worked with during my time as a board member in NGAAF. I travelled all the way to Turkana to oversee some projects that were being undertaken to assist the vulnerable members of our society. I realised the people of Turkana were very lucky to have a progressive mind like Hon. Joyce Emanikor as their woman representative. These are the minds we require in this House, who will think not only of themselves; not only of implementation of government projects, but also think of those in the young generation lot who are facing a lot of problems. We have talked so much on disasters in schools and we have zeroed in on fire and structures collapsing. However, there are other forms of disasters like sex-based violence, terrorism and disease. There is also the issue of outbreak of water-borne diseases and students do not know how to react or save themselves from such communicable diseases. So, this Bill is very timely. In the past, we have faced disasters that have destroyed the lives of our young ones and maimed so many of them. Our young ones have lost lives. The future of this country has been shattered by disasters like the one we witnessed in Nairobi of a building collapsing on young ones, as young as three or four years. We saw them lose lives and others get maimed at Garissa University. We saw the fire in Kyanguli. We saw the Bombolulu fire and so many other disasters that I cannot mention in this House. We need this particular amendment to prepare our young ones so that in case of any disaster, we save many lives. We can do all that is humanly possible to make sure that we secure lives from those disasters. Some of those disasters are natural and unavoidable. But even if we cannot avoid them, at least, we can do what is humanly possible to save more lives as opposed to 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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