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    "id": 1052558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1052558/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Murugara for bringing a closure to this debate because we have been on it for two days and several Members spoke to it. I want to thank all the Members who spoke to the Kenya National Library Service Bill. There was total consensus that we need to get libraries, a reading culture and to support libraries across all the counties. This is very positive because without that source of knowledge, our youth will be diverted to other anti-social behaviour from the social media and other platforms. I want to recognise that Members had an overwhelming support. I did not hear any single amendment being suggested; which means that the Bill was well drafted. However, any Member who wishes to bring an amendment is at liberty to do so. We can process it as fast as possible and move it to the Senate. The issue of libraries is a shared responsibility between the national Government and the county governments and the earlier we can process that, the better so that our scholars can get the benefits of this Bill. As I was moving the Bill, I noted that we are updating an Act of 1967, and with so many years having passed and a new Constitution in place, we needed this law like yesterday."
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