Education CS Julius Ogamba has reaffirmed that the cause of the Hillside Endarasha Academy fire that claimed 21 lives will be established. https://shorturl.at/ZgZ5H
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00:00Your Excellency, the loss of these young lives is not going to be in vain.
00:07As a ministry, we have made the decision that this has to be the turning point.
00:13Our schools must be safe havens for nurturing the potential of our children.
00:19Parents and guardians should not live with anxiety over the safety and security of their children in school.
00:27The children themselves must not live with concerns about their safety and security in the school environment.
00:35We are keen to establish the cause of the tragedy that cost these young lives.
00:42The Directorate of Criminal Investigation is leading in this process.
00:47And we, as a ministry, are also carrying out an audit to establish if there was any omission on the part of our officers.
00:56I want to give the assurance, Your Excellency, that we will hold to account anybody found culpable for this incident.
01:05Your Excellency, we have also commissioned a nationwide audit of all public and private boarding schools
01:13to determine the level of compliance with the school safety manual that has been established.
01:20We will take firm action to ensure compliance with the requirements of the manual.
01:25We will also take firm action to sanction those who have failed to ensure compliance with the manual.
01:33We want in the long run to guarantee the confidence of parents, guardians and learners
01:39and indeed all stakeholders that our schools are not danger zones.