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    "id": 1049786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "It is critical for our Parliament to allocate resources so that we can realise those objectives in our Constitution, which has enabled us to come up with this Bill. There is no point for us to pass a Bill here and we do not resource it well together with the institutions that we are creating so that we can fully realise the objectives of those institutions. It is very important that once we establish those libraries, especially at national level, to really invest in translation software. It is critical that we are able to benefit from the wisdom of the writers who are from francophone countries or Lusophone countries. Francophone are those who write in French. It really enabled us to have insight from across the world. The Library Service is a shared function between the two arms of Government –National and county level. I really hope that both levels of Government will finance this service so that Kenyans, whether in the national capital cities or in the counties, are going to benefit from the library services in their country. I just want to share an experience as to why a reading culture can be useful. In the 10th Parliament, I travelled as part of a Kenyan delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. Among the delegation was the late John Michuki. I was a young parliamentarian in the 10th Parliament and this was a senior member of Government and Parliament with whom I did not have much to share with. However, in the course of our trip - two trips to New York - I came to realise that we were reading the same book by a scholar called Dan Brown. He wrote many books. TheDa Vinci Code is the one that is well known. Lately, he wrote a book on hell. The Da Vinci Code is one. The Lost Symbol is the other one and Inferno is the latest, which is about hell and heaven or the concept of that."
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