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    "id": 1051564,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "pastoralists’ students, so that they can get the benefit of having KNLS in the country. Now that I have mentioned that, I hope it will reach to the people concerned. Let me talk about the importance of having libraries in every county. Hon. Speaker, knowledge is power. There is an hon. Member who has said that there was a child who was asked who is President of the Republic of Kenya and he replied that it is Hon. William Samoei Ruto, and we all laughed. Actually, that is what is in some people’s minds. Some people do not know some things. When we have such kinds of facilities, students can know who the President and the Deputy President are. Members have talked about research. Scholars in Turkana County travel to Eldoret to seek library services to do their research. If we can have this service in Turkana County, many of our scholars will enjoy the service and cut the costs of travelling to Eldoret to do research. On mass media; it is an important tool that can be used by our children. It can also be a bad tool. For a child to communicate to other students outside there, they must have those services close to them. They will be familiar with the outside world through communicating with students outside this country. The KNLS needs to put into consideration the content that they will put in those libraries. I was privileged to travel to China. When we went to their institutions, we found that they had put information on their culture in all their computers. The information is on their history, culture and leaders. If we want our children to know their culture, the KNLS must put every tribes’ history, culture and beliefs in those libraries, so that a child, for example, can know a Turkana person, the culture of the Maasai, Pokot and other tribes. Some of our children are born in town and they do not know our cultures. If we have libraries in counties, our children will learn about other cultures before they join universities. On discussions and sharing of information, libraries are important. During studies, students can have time to meet, discuss and share information. This will help them to learn from other students. It will encourage discussions and sharing of information. They will grow up knowing things. The issue of promoting a reading culture in this country has been repeated by many Members. For Christians, if you want to know they are reading the Bible, put something in the Bible and ask them to go and read. They will not read and they will not get what you put in the Bible. It is my prayer that those services will encourage our students to read. If we expose them to a reading culture by bringing libraries near them, it will make them knowledgeable. I agree with the people who have said that, sometimes, YouTube pumps information to children without them working hard for it. During our school days, we went physically to look for a book on a particular subject, so that you could read it yourself. We would get so many books and place them on the table so that we would go through them. YouTube pumps information and that makes our students lazy. I support the Bill and encourage the KNLS to set up a library in Turkana County. Thank you."
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