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    "id": 1049726,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049726/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "I remember when I was a member of a troop called Redykyulass trio, I was informed that there were agents of the Library of Congress who actually showed up in this country looking for every single episode of the Redykyulass comedy show so that they could store it in the library of Congress as an audio visual reference of a time capsule in the Kenyan history. In the same breath, I do believe that this library service that we are forming will not only be a place where we store books, but also as a repository of our culture. As a person who came into politics from a platform of the youth movement, I was able to learn that generation after generation in this country keeps making the same mistakes that were made by the previous generations. There is talk in this country about a hustler nation and a hustler movement today. Those are young people. I realise, because we are not able to store our culture, our stories and our folktales, the same mistakes that were made by the Mau Mau generation are the same mistakes that were made by the young people who were fighting for the second liberation in this country. The same mistakes that were made by the people fighting for the second liberation are the same mistakes that we were committing when we came into the youth movement and were trying to seek answers for this country. We want to pray that the later day hustler nation does not make the same mistakes that were made by the people fighting for the second liberation and were made by the Mau Mau nation back in the day, just because we were not able to store the stories of our country in a meaningful way. I rise to support this new introduction of the Kenya National Library Service noting very well that as we make this library, we will need to make libraries that are meaningful for today. I want to conclude by quoting an individual by the name David Lankes. He is a librarian. He was once quoted as saying: “Bad libraries build collections. Good libraries will build services. However, great libraries build communities”. Let us build libraries that will build amazing communities for the future of this country. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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