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    "id": 935203,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/935203/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matuga, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassim Tandaza",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kassim Sawa Tandaza",
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    "content": "Apart from the curriculum and the information that the students and teachers should be taught, there is need to see how we can make our places safe generally not only the schools but also our homes. Our kids are in schools most of the time but when they come home like now during the holidays, they are not safe should a disaster happen. Disaster management is not about information or knowledge. The first point is disaster detection. That is the best weapon to handle disasters. Unfortunately, in most of our schools, even where is looming danger and everybody who passes by knows that should anything happen, it cannot be managed, we still have situations where no remedial action is taken. We talk about schools, doors and congestion. These are things that we know. If a disaster happens, it becomes a problem handling it because the dormitory is poorly built. That is not about knowledge but the resources that are available to put up such facilities. As a House, once this Bill passes and it becomes law, we need to allocate resources so that the Bill can be operationalised. There is no way it will help or be of any use, if no funds are allocated to make sure that this is operationalised. Recently, in my constituency, we had a disaster at Kwale Girls High School where a whole multipurpose Hall collapsed during lunch hour. Sometimes, we say God loves us. It was lunch hour. Just by God’s grace, no kid was in that multipurpose Hall. You cannot even imagine what would have happened if they had congregated inside there. Of course, there was no disaster response, no information and no alarm which should have been set off to warn the girls not to rush to that place. As one person said, Kenyans have peculiar habits. When a disaster happens, instead of people running away from the disaster, they rush to the disaster. That is one of our peculiar habits. As I stand and support this Bill, I also urge this House that once the Bill becomes law, we allocate resources so that this Bill can be operationalised. Thank you. I support the amendment."
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