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    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. This Bill has come to this House for the second time. I have contributed to it before. The fact remains that a nation without a library is not a nation. That is because libraries are part and parcel of development. I recall the days when libraries used to be libraries in this country. At that time, I was a teacher and a principal of a school. KNLS used to exist in all the provinces. They were very well run, had very good books and served not only the community and the public, but also schools. KNLS used to have mobile libraries and they would go to schools and students would borrow books. They would come back after two weeks to collect the books. Students would borrow again and again. It was very powerful and well run. The CEO at the time was a close family friend. He was very passionate about promoting libraries. Somehow, that collapsed for reasons not known to me. Libraries were well run in the 1980s when I was a teacher. Right now, people have gone digital and no longer care about reading because they can get what they want from the internet. It is as simple as that! That is like a summary of things. A book that you can read from cover to cover and be a scholar is in the library. You get good books and reference materials, and you can read for long. Today, people are not reading. People do not know how to read or what to do. They just want entertainment, which is still very okay. But people are putting more effort in entertainment than reading as a culture. We are seeing young people growing up without reading, and many of them cannot read. I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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