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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. That is not a point of information. He is seeking clarification. I can assure my brother that I passed the proficiency test for Kiswahili language that is spoken in Kenya, but not in Tanzania. Hon. Temporary Speaker has spoken Tanzanian Kiswahili. I can manage the basic Kiswahili that is spoken in Kenya, but not the complicated one. I support and thank the Mover for clarifying that this Bill was before the House in the last Parliament. That is because it looks extremely familiar. I discover that I had given a lot of input and even proposed amendments. I have seen that some of my amendments were carried, which I appreciate, even though others were not picked. The Kenya National Library Services Bill is very necessary. Since 2010, library services have been devolved. I agree with Hon. Members who have said that the fact that they have been devolved does not mean libraries should only be at the county levels. We do not have libraries that meet the standard of equalisation in those counties. For instance, there is an excellent library at Ogande Girls High School in Homa Bay that was promoted by Hon. Mama Ida Odinga, which is almost complete. Those are the kinds of library standards that we want in every county. We should also devolve the libraries to sub-county levels and even further. I have a programme in my constituency called Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) in Suba North that promotes a culture of reading. Our National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) resources are limited. I hope to set up a mobile library using a boat that sails to the seven islands of Suba North to promote a reading culture. I am not only an avid reader, but also I am a writer. Last week, I launched one of my books, Rig or Be Rigged . I am concurrently writing six other books. I am a very passionate reader and writer. I do this because I know reading has actually enabled me to become who I am. I was lucky to have a mother who went to school at a time when women did not go to school. My mother encouraged a reading culture in our household. Even though she was a widow with eight children, almost all of us studied up to university level because she encouraged a reading culture in our lives. I know that through digitisation, which I proposed amendments in the earlier Bill, we can open up the world and get more information and opportunities. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am trying to log into my computer, but it does not recognise me. This is a challenge of digitisation. How can my computer not recognise my finger or face?"
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