Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, the Arts, and Heritage, Hanna Wendot Cheptumo, emphasized the importance of literacy at the National Reading Day 2025 celebrations, asserting it as a constitutional right and critical for national development.

• Article 43(1)(f) of the Constitution guarantees every Kenyan the right to education and access to knowledge.
• The event took place at the Kenya National Library Service headquarters (Maktaba Kuu).
• Cheptumo highlighted initiatives like Vtabu, Kenya’s national virtual library, aimed at enhancing access to educational resources for children, women, and marginalized communities.