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    "id": 1142701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1142701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13180,
        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "on this law, we need to check how this relates to what the counties have been doing and how they can realign to this law. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is good to guide them because this law has proposed that we have constitutions that these groups can rely on. A special way of doing application like, the table banking most of the times when people come to groups they just sit and decide to divide the money among themselves. Sometimes, they are not able to account for it or to hold each other accountable when it is meant for the community to develop itself. When people default, most community groups do not know what to do because there is nothing to really enforce. In the Maasai set up, when a member defaults payment, you find people walking to a home and the morning to tell the man that we have come to pick up some goats or sheep because a member of the homestead defaulted in the groups that they have been members to. This kind of organisation and realizing that this is one way to hold our community together, empower, organize them and bring them to understand that they are part and parcel of developing and participating in our economy. This law will go a long way to help. I also see that there is provision for cancellation of registration when you misbehave. Many Kenyans have ended up crying and getting desperate because they were in some pyramid schemes where they lost money. Some people enlist others into groups that they do not understand and have no proper regulations. This Bill gives provision of how to register, renewal of the registration and even how to deregister when the viability of a group is in question. Madam Temporary Speaker, this law brings together several groups that have the same interest to forge together. It is better for several groups to come together because that is better than having one on their own when they are doing the same thing. Such groups can even share experiences and best practices. I hope that this kind of coming together will improve the economy of what we do down there in our communities. This law also provides for members, officials to run the groups and inspection of registers so that at the end of the day there is accountability within these groups. Most of the time, groups come together but are not accountable. In the process, they end up losing their money. Generally, this is a good law that brings order and meaning to what most of our community groups are doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, I second."
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