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    "id": 139235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, this communication concerns the matter of pyramid schemes which has arisen in this House on several occasions. Hon. Members, you will recall that on 4th June, 2009, the hon. Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing made a Ministerial Statement on the matter. The Minister, in the course of his Statement, informed the House that he had appointed a task force to interrogate the matter of pyramid schemes. The Minister then undertook to Table the Report of the Task Force in the House once the Task Force had completed its work. On Thursday 23rd July, 2009, the hon. Dr. Bonny Khalwale rose on a point of order seeking that the Minister honours his undertaking and Tables the Report of the Task Force. In response, the Minister stated that although the Report was complete, there had been some developments in the intervening period in the form of a court case. The Kenya Business Community Co-operative Savings and Credit Society Ltd. had filed suit against the Attorney-General, the Minister and members of the Task Force in Judicial Review Miscellaneous Application No.399 of 2009 lodged in the High Court. The Minister Tabled before this House, documentation relating to the suit. The Notice of the Motion filed on behalf of the Society indicates that the Society seeks an order of certiorari that would in effect prevent the Minister from acting on the recommendations of the Task Force and an order of prohibition to bar the release or implementation of the decisions of the Task Force. The matter has yet to be concluded by the court. In the interim, the High Court, on the 13th July, 2009, issued interim orders in the following terms:- 1. That requirements of prior services of notice on the registrar be dispensed with."
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