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    "id": 953591,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wilson Sossion",
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    "content": "tragedy that happened yesterday at the Precious Talent Academy in Dagoretti South Constituency, in Nairobi City. As I had earlier on indicated, it is an indicator of many things that are wrong in our education system. Even as we debate the Sessional Paper that we have just been debating, this is a very critical component that should be a standalone issue and to which this Parliament must apply its mind and ability. We are not talking about making legislation. We are talking about effective implementation of the legislation that is in place. As I move this, the analysis of the Kenya legal framework in the management of education system is actually one of the best as compared to many nations in the world. We send our condolences to the affected families. It is a very painful thing that students have to walk to school and within a very short time, a number of them are dead out of a tragedy that can be prevented. What has just happened and what could easily happen in other schools is a tragedy that can be prevented. I wish to point out that the tragedy that has been experienced in that school and some of the tragedies that have been experienced in other schools are out of negligence and the inability of the Ministry of Education to enforce the existing laws, particularly on setting of minimum national standards for operations of schools. And this is in relation with legislation. We have the legislation in place that guides the process of registering any public or private school and all schools are subject to the law. No school is an exception, whether it is public or private. We must all subscribe to the law. According to the law, no school should operate without a registration licence. This is a tragedy that we are talking about while thousands and thousands of private schools are operating without licences. We are talking about buildings that are not supervised and certified by the public works officers. We are talking about buildings, classrooms and toilets and all other infrastructure that are not supervised and approved by the public health officers. We are talking about classrooms and buildings where our children visit every morning and purport to carry out their learning activities and they are not quality assured by the quality assurance and standards officers. Is this a tragedy that we can use our little ones; the young children of this nation, as the frontier of business? Of course, the CS has taken responsibility. The Chair of education is here. These are matters that we raised and the CS at some point promised that by the middle of June he would ensure that all schools, whether public or private, complied with the law and those that do not comply would be deregistered. The truth is there are a lot of private schools that exist and operate illegally; and they must be closed down. There should be no exception to the law. Is the leadership of the Ministry protecting cartels? Are cartels hijacking and taking over our public institutions, particularly the Ministry, to the extent that we risk lives of children?"
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