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    "id": 1049778,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049778/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Catherine Waruguru",
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        "legal_name": "Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru",
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    "content": "me acknowledge that in Laikipia, I have a number of adults who would wish to go back to school and do adult learning. Most of the times, we experience challenges because it does not look tidy when somebody does not know how to hold a pen, to read and write. The only area they can get an opportunity to train and access those kinds of services is in a library. If you look at our sub- counties, they cannot afford to have fully stocked libraries. In arid and semi-arid areas, there are no libraries at all. Those areas that have library centers are not fully stocked with books. They do not have enough support services and they do not have enough funding. Most of the times, you will realise that they are always the least funded when discussing disbursement of resources in the Ministry of Education’s budget. Therefore, for this reason, this exposes our ugly culture as a country where most of us do not like reading. The only things that you will find in majority of our library shelves are old newspapers and magazines. In this age, we are talking about e-books, e-learning, long-distance learning and Google . In the fast-world we are living in, you will realise that there are materials and books that you cannot find on Google or buy them as e-books. For that reason – because of our culture and where we are coming from as a country – there is a need to dig deep into this. As a legislator, I may borrow from it. Most of us do not understand where we have come from as an Assembly and as a country for us to enjoy the freedoms we are enjoying today. There was a time when any young person below the age of 35 could not be allowed to be a legislator in the National Assembly. Today, we are enjoying that because there was a history that was laboured for and people shed their blood. This is history that we need as part of our growth as we move from one generation to another. When you check tourists when they visit this county, is there anything that holds and binds them? When you come into counties like Laikipia and Nairobi and you want to understand what you can experience and find in them, you will realise that, as a country, we are heavily reliant on"
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