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    "id": 1048931,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity. First of all, I would like to congratulate our sister, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, for improving the Co-operative Societies Bill in major ways. We really thank her for doing this because this is one Bill that needed to be aligned to the Constitution. I think that we have lost a number of years without using the right methods. I say this because we have received Petitions from Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs). If only we had improved on the law itself, we would not have been worrying about how the management of our SACCOs would be done. Madam Temporary Speaker, one Petition was read by myself from the Moi University Savings and Credit Cooperative Society. The Commissioner of Cooperatives sent it to liquidation and when the county government requested to be involved in what was going on, they were denied the opportunity and yet the Constitution has placed the role of dealing with the management of cooperatives on the county governments. The Committee did a wonderful job here. I thank the Chairperson and the Members of the Committee who looked at that Petition. As they were looking at it, many issues came out. We have not streamlined how we manage cooperative societies so that the Commissioner of Cooperatives still felt that the county governments should play no role. I am very happy that those issues have been brought out here because it is very important that we streamline them. It is true that there was a time that our cooperatives were very vibrant, but they then went into a very low period. Thereafter, we had a wonderful Minister called Joe Nyagah. May God rest his soul in peace. We lost him when we were in the last recess. He improved and revived the sector. He brought in a lot of improvements in the management of cooperative societies, but that was before the 2010 Constitution was passed. When the 2010 Constitution was passed, it was envisaged that we would then align the laws of the counties and the laws of the national Government functions according to the Fourth Schedule in such a manner that the management of these cooperative societies that had been revived would move in a smooth manner. That was not done. 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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