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    "id": 1483191,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1483191/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Chepkong’a",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Of course, you know the language which my very good friend, Hon. Ruweida Mohamed, uses. You can be sure if I attempt to use it, I will be confused quarter way. So, I better stay on a safe and well-trodden road, which is speaking in English. The one from Lamu is a little bit tricky and murky for me. I rise to support the Kenya National Library Service Bill. Indeed, it is a very progressive Bill that will help this country in terms of research. Generally, there is no body that coordinates the standards of libraries that are constructed across the country by the county governments and the national Government, particularly in secondary schools. This Bill will provide a framework within which those libraries will be regulated. That way, we can have some sought of seamless standards across the country. We do not want to have a stand-alone library that you do not know the sort of books that are found there. As you know, for a country to progress, there must be research institutions. If they are not supported by well-equipped libraries, that country will not progress. Even if they are supported, if you want to come up with a new idea, you must know the ideas that were formulated in the past. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when I was doing my Master of Laws (LLM) research, we were told that you must come up with a new area that has not been investigated upon. The only place you can find out whether this is a new area that has not been investigated, is to go to a library and find out what research has been undertaken by people that have gone before you, so that you do not repeat what someone else has done."
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