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    "id": 1102670,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
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    "content": "of the National Assembly for the support accorded to Members in fulfilment of the Committee’s mandate. Further, I wish to express my own appreciation to the members of the Committee for their commitment and valuable contributions during the sittings to deliberate on the policy and the writing of the report. I commend the Committee secretariat for exemplary performance in providing technical and logistical support to the Committee. Upon consideration of Sessional Paper No. 4 of 2020, the Committee made the following observations. I will run the House through a synopsis of what those observations are: 1. The national co-operative policy provides a framework for accelerating the growth of Kenya’s co-operative sector in a dynamic and competitive global environment. It replaces Sessional Paper No. 6 of 1997 on co-operatives in a liberalised economic environment, which is anchored on the Co-operative Societies Act (Cap. 490), the Co-operative Rules and Regulations, 2005, the Sacco Societies Act, 2008 and the Sacco Societies Regulations, 2010. The policy provides for a new structure that stratifies the co-operative movement by establishing a federation and strengthening the apex organisation in a bid to promote integration and enhance self-regulation as opposed to regulation per se. 2. The national co-operative policy aims to accelerate the growth and development of the co-operative sector through legal and institutional reforms to promote co- operative production, access to shared resources, value and marketing, enhance financial deepening and investment through co-operative, establish an institutional framework for enhancement of cooperation, consultation and co- ordination of co-operatives, develop the capacity of co-operatives through training, education and research. 3. The policy seeks to re-align the existing legal and regulatory framework with the Constitution. Article 186 of the Constitution and the Fourth Schedule delineate the mandate and functions of the national and county governments. In this case, the policy seeks to uphold the sanctity of cooperative values and principles and functional delineation as a way of enabling the growth of co- operative enterprise in the nation. 4. The policy also provides for the involvement of the youth, women and non- State actors, both as key policy framework implementers and in pulling resources to bolster livelihoods through co-operative society movement. 5. The policy proposes measures that will structure the office of the commissioner for co-operatives. 6. Remittance of members’ contributions and deductions lacked an alternative approach to ensure that employers remit what is owing to employees to cater for lost opportunities to persons whose funds were not remitted. 7. With regard to impact assessment, there have been many changes. Members wondered whether impact assessment was carried out prior to formulation of this policy. Concerns were raised on whether saccos were ready to implement the new policy. 8. Audit function and impact assessment have been apportioned to county governments whose capacity is limited and, therefore, the national government shall provide technical support to realise optimum bargain. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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