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    "content": "run them as private entities. We also have individuals who have started mobile libraries to encourage a reading culture in the society. We will request the committee to also include such libraries that can be accessed and have information that is important to the society. The Bill will also impose an obligation on the committee to prepare and submit annual reports to the county executive and assemblies and report its activities every year. We have passed Motions in this Senate that committees should be formed and functions be devolved. However, a problem arises when we do not receive reports about, for example, what a committees does, how far it has gone, how far the libraries will be equipped, what is in the libraries and how they are being managed. Currently, there is a problem because libraries are being managed by the Kenya National Library Services Board (KNLSB) that was established before I was born. It has members that do not have much impact on the people in counties, for example, my county which is Kisumu. In this case, we will request the Senate to pass the Bill so that a board is formed to perform all the tasks that I have enumerated. The board will have to report back to the county government and county assembly on what they have done or what they will do. It will inform them about the plans they have and how they will turn the society into a reading culture. The board will also inform us about how they will attract members of the community to go to the libraries now that libraries will be near them. These are tasks that it will perform. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill is also expected to promote the establishment and use of libraries in counties. You can build a house or hotel but if you do not invite people to it, then, it will just remain a structure with a name printed on it. So, we expect the committee to make a library a place worth going to and digging into the information that is inside so that people can access information. I always believe that every day is a learning day. You can teach me and I can also teach you. Sometimes, I know what you do not know and you know what I do not know. By this, we can help each other because you have something that you can help me with but a library has something that can help all of us. It has information that can change counties or even the country. I beg to move and call upon Sen. Wangari to second."
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