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    "id": 1049662,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "on Saturdays, you get encouraged that at least they are searching for knowledge instead of just sitting at home watching television and being moved into some harmful tendencies that can only be harmful to the mind. I have seen other libraries in Murang’a, Nyeri and elsewhere. I also want to commend Members of this House who have also put some money, through their National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), before the function was taken over to the counties to build these libraries and help in equipment, so that people can have a place where they can seek knowledge. Of course, we need to encourage that reading culture, like I said, to divert energy of our young ones from televisions and social media that could be harmful to the mind. As I conclude, I wish to assure Hon. Members that the proposals in this Bill comply fully with the provisions of the Constitution and the Standing Orders. The Bill will immensely facilitate realisation of Article 11 of our Constitution as regards the preservation and maintenance of library resources. This obviously is a Bill that, like I did mention, involves counties. So I am hopeful that, by the time we finish with it, Members of the Senate will also see the need to enact this Bill fast enough so that we can provide those facilities across the entire country. I will be appealing to the Senate to give it the seriousness it deserves. It is also a money Bill because, obviously, we are talking of resourcing. I am glad that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has prioritised it and said it is worth investing our children’s future in terms of facilities. So, I really do not want to get into a lot of debate. It is a very self-explanatory Bill. Like I said, there is already some framework. There are libraries. People are reading. Hence, what we really want is to have this Bill passed so that we can have a proper grounding for the KNLS and update the institutional structure that was created in 1967. It is almost five decades ago and so much has changed since then. I also want to ask Members to read through it and proffer any amendments they will bring. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism to second. I believe she is around. Or the Vice-Chair, ole Lemein, who is a distinguished scholar in his own way and I know he loves libraries, to second."
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