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    "id": 935211,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Florence Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me; first, take this opportunity to congratulate our best candidate in Busia in the recently released KCPE results, Flavian Onyango, for emerging the second-best nationally with 439 marks. We are very proud of her and all our candidates. I want to congratulate my sister, Hon. Joyce Emanikor, for this Bill. It is timely because we have had very bizarre incidents happening in schools, which is very worrying. People often forget shortly thereafter. It is unfortunate that most schools to date do not have plans of emergency preparedness. We have seen schools being unable to fight fires and deal with other disasters when they occur. Our children continue to lose lives. Most worrying are the rooms where they live in boarding schools, where they still have one exit. So, it is difficult to evacuate anyone because they all rush out through that one exit. We hope that the Ministry of Education has handled this boarding issue, because people have talked about it many times. We must have the right policies and safeguards when it comes to construction plans. They need to standardise construction plans in the whole country so that boarding schools can have one plan. We all remember the recent incident that happened at Precious Talents Academy in Dagoretti, Nairobi. We remember the Garissa University College terrorist attack. To date, we have never known who killed our children. We have no answers. Was there an exit plan for students at Garissa University College? We remember painfully the Kyanguli fire. To date, we have never known what happened and if the parents were compensated, though you can never equate life to money. Those who survived those incidents, have they been supported through counselling services? When we were in school, we used to be taught firs aid. I do not know if it is still a basic unit in schools anymore. Also, we used to have fire drills, as one Member has said. These are very key when it comes to emergency. When you see your friend fainting, you will see what to do. When they collapse, you will know what to do, especially if they are children who may be having issues. 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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