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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I also want to congratulate Sen. Joyce for this important Bill. When I talk of libraries, I am thinking of grassroots areas where technology is not accessible. These are places where people use small mobiles. Parents in these areas cannot give their children smartphones to access books from their phones. Libraries should be in every school. I know there are some schools that have no libraries, but we need libraries in every school because that will encourage and promote the English Language, which is used in all the lessons they are learning. You realise that most students, at the grassroots level, fail because they are not conversant with English. This is because their exams and learning are done in English. If they have libraries in schools, this will improve their English Language. Secondly, I want to encourage mobile libraries because we cannot have libraries in every ward and every county at the moment. However, if we have one county library, then we can have a few mobile libraries, which can be moved from ward to ward. We need to think of mobile libraries. This can work in areas where technology has not been reached, as well as areas that have no libraries. You will realize there are constituencies with no libraries at all. Mobile libraries will help our students, youth, and people who like to read. We need to encourage these mobile libraries to be for children at the Early Childhood Development Centres level so that they master the English language, which they require. In Nairobi, Mombasa and all these big towns and cities, children are good at English; they can speak English at the ECD level. However, you realize that other poor schools have no libraries, and the teachers are not competent, which means they are failures. How do you expect a teacher who got a D and or C to teach good English to a student? These libraries would help our ECD Centres and primary and secondary schools. As we implement the counties' libraries, we should have libraries in all the schools, and more so at the grassroots level, where there are no smartphones and no electricity. We need mobile libraries in those areas. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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