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    "id": 1102690,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1102690/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "protecting monopolistic individual and private companies at the expense of the co-operatives. If I can give an example, we had killed KCC – it was a co-operative by farmers and was assisting them - in order to promote, through legislation, monopolistic private industries like Brookside and others. At times, they end up buying milk at a low price. Sometimes they buy milk at Kshs22 or even less than Kshs30 a litre. They skim the milk. They remove the ghee and butter, package and then sell to us the skimmed milk, which is almost water, at Kshs60 for half a litre! That is robbery without violence! There are many advantages of having co-operatives. In co-operatives, though the members in their individual capacities have very few resources, when they pool their resources together, they can market their products even internationally. When they harness their resources together, they can have a value addition chain. I can give an example. If we had very strong co-operative societies in our pastoralist regions, we could easily harness our resources, have bigger tanneries within our regions and change hide and skin into shoes, wallets, and jackets. In that value addition, we will be able to earn a lot more. In Kenya, we currently import 25 million pairs of shoes. If the 25 million pairs of shoes were made from our hides and skins, the pastoralists would be selling hides and skins more expensively than meat. I can go on and on and even talk of Kenya Breweries Limited, which is a monopolistic kind of industry owned by cartels and big individuals. If it was owned by farmers, we would have breweries owned by barley farmers and they would have value for their products. I support the Sessional Paper."
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