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    "id": 935208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/935208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "This brings into mind the design of the schools and the various infrastructure in the schools, be it classrooms, dining halls, libraries, assembly halls and all the infrastructure in the schools that hold children. Many times you have heard cases of pit latrines collapsing with children and other members of public in them. This is a failure in design and construction. Therefore, it is a call upon all those responsible for checking or supervising construction of schools’ infrastructure to make sure they comply with the law as set out in various building by laws, the Physical Planning and Land Use Act, the requirements or regulations put in the Commission of University Education and all others. That is to ensure that the structures that hold our children should be those that guarantee them safety and comfort at the same time. However, the issue of safety, preparedness, self defence, safety skills, life skills and the rest cannot surely be all donated or left to the schools. Education is a holistic process that starts from the date of birth up to the time your heart stops beating and you are declared past tense. Therefore, it is upon us parents and the community at large to make sure that as we educate and teach children, kids or babies at the very early age; the basics of life, we must also teach them life skills, self defence and basic detection of points of danger. It is expecting too much that every single parent in this country always thinks a teacher and the school is the solution to all the life issues affecting our children. I echo the sentiments of the CS of education, Prof. Magoha, when he said that parents need to spend time with their children during these school holidays. Money is not part of their life but children are part of their life. We should impart these small soft skills to the children. It is important, basically, to tell a child “you run away when you see fire but, when you are running away, run where it is open. You can go there and be evacuated”. We need to tell children “when you hear a voice or noise of cracking or falling, it is important you seek to go to the safest place to avoid a collapse”. These are some of the basic things we parents, young parents and retired ones like ourselves need to tell our children that this is what needs to be done to avoid being caught unawares. The schools cannot teach everything. Teachers cannot teach everything. 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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