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    "id": 1048902,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "In addition, the National Government will play a very important role in enacting policies. Policies that will guide and regulate the development of the cooperative societies. The county governments, which is the second level of management, will play a very important role in ensuring that they provide information desks for cooperative societies where ideas can be shared based on the best practices for cooperative societies. Again, it is in counties where we will have proper management. It is at the county level where the management in charge of cooperative societies will be able to reach out to the various cooperative societies across the counties. Madam Deputy Speaker, I am sure that Sen. (Dr.) Zani would be interested in ensuring that she can add a section for county governments so that groups of people who are not members of cooperative societies can be encouraged to join them. I am sure that there are many people out there who fear to join cooperative societies, maybe because at one time, they fell into the hands of pyramid schemes that were alive in this country in the 1990s. To date, we cannot say that they are no longer there. Many people shy away and fear to join cooperative societies because they feel that they may end up losing their contributions. I am encouraging Sen. (Dr.) Zani to add a section that requires the county management to provide capacity building and search for groups that can form cooperative societies. Looking at this Bill, Section 6, 7 and 9, it has provided for refusal to register. This will go a long way in ensuring that those cooperative societies that are not well managed or do not meet the requirements will not be registered. This will play an important role in sieving out those cooperative societies. Madam Deputy Speaker, Section 11 goes ahead to ensure that there is an appeal tribunal to ensure that cooperative societies that will not be allowed to register have a way out to ensure that they are provided with a chance to do so. There were many cooperative societies in the past that had come together, they were very viable, had been managed very well, but after sometime, they collapsed and they have many assets. This Bill has gone a long way; Clause 38 provides for liquidation. I have been in the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare where we have been dealing a lot with many companies that had come together in the past, have a lot of assets, but issues of liquidation have become a challenge. However, this Bill has provided for ways of liquidation so that the companies can separate with people who are no longer in that society. It is a very important issue because members will still enjoy their benefits. Madam Deputy Speaker, Sen. (Dr.) Zani can add a provision for the review of the viability of the cooperative societies once in a while. That is because there are cooperative societies that have for a long time been in place and were active and profitable in the past, but they are stagnant right now and maybe a few people in the leadership enjoy the benefits. I have one example in my county and I do not want to mention its name. If we have a provision to provide for review so that those societies that are stagnant are made to liquidate to ensure that members get their benefits so that they can separate. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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