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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "in my constituency with Hon. Joyce Bensuda recently, I told the young girls that life is not just about dancing. There is a growing culture that young people think they can only dance weekend to weekend. Dancing is basically to relax us. We must progress in other areas, including education. I will propose some amendments which I had proposed in the last session of Parliament. We are not used to things that sound concentrated. I had actually proposed a Kenya Resource Identification Numbers Agency. For those of us who have published books, you know that we have such an agency that sets standards to administer international standard resource identification numbers for books, serials, magazines, music and other resources. The functions of the agency should be, amongst others, to provide a linkage between the national agency and other international resource number agencies for the purposes of the development of unique identification system for resource identification materials in Kenya. When I made that proposal, the Committee thought it was too complex at that time. I wish I had a copy of my book here. I would have shown you a barcode that has a unique identifier number. You cannot have it, unless you have a system. We have an agency that administers that in Kenya. It should apply to music, books and others. Therefore, I will propose further amendments to this Bill. I thank the Committee for taking up the issue of digitisation which I had proposed. In this era and time, we are moving… Currently, I am selling my books and people, especially in the diaspora, are more concerned about receiving the digital version. Of course, as a passionate reader, I have to get physical versions of books. I am that old school, but we must provide that. I am also happy that they have provided the braille version for persons with disabilities. In concluding, because we are dealing with issues of abuse of girls and the distractions like the dancing I was talking about, promoting that reading culture is one of the ways to keep our girls and young boys engaged. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Bill, with the proposed amendments."
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