Dear Editor,

Reading is not a favourite thing for many local citizens of this country. Admiring a book cover, finding out who wrote the book, reading a few pages, flipping more pages here and there is more like it’s for an average individual reader.

Just as example, school libraries across the country have books kept under lock and the key kept by the school administration, and students barely having a chance to read them.

Thus the children who would e great readers and probably writers in future are denied a chance at an early age to explore reading skills.

On the other hand, if the book shelves are open to students at all time, for one reason or another, few or no students read them, partly because no programme scheduled for reading.

Text books and other readable materials are good sources of knowledge and information for both children and adults
if we are to take the saying that "a man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as a wiser by always reading,” then there is cause for alarm about encouraging children to start reading.

As a matter of fact, young ones are the future generation, helping them to acquire knowledge to become informed citizens will better their lives and country’s development strategies.

Kabeza