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"content": "Hon. Cheptumo, 13 years after the passage of the 2010 Constitution, why should we come up with a law and you are still referring to the Cabinet Secretary, for a devolved function? Why can we not devolve registration of cooperatives back to our counties? The human being, whether it is a lawyer, the person to be employed in Nairobi and the person who will be employed at the county level, will discharge the same functions. How come we can allow a criminal or anybody who has a civil dispute to go to a court in Nyamira, file a case and a determination is made at the county and that is final? Why must we say that to register a SACCO, we need a Commissioner of Cooperatives in Nairobi? What for? We can have several commissioners of cooperatives at the county level, so that we register our cooperatives in real time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, if you look at the way we are evaluated as a country on the speed at which we are doing business and are allowing them to be registered, timeframe is taken into account. We are here saying that we are giving the person in charge 30 days to register a cooperative. Why can it not be done in a record 24 hours? If my account can be opened by a bank in 48 hours and I get an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card that is digital, put it into an ATM machine and get the money, what is so difficult with this? I am challenging Sen. Mariam Omar to remove this belief that everything must be done by the national Government. No, we can do it at the county level very successfully. When I was growing up, we had a cooperative society in Borabu called Eronge Cooperative Society. That is where we used to deliver our pyrethrum. Those days, agriculture was thriving. My late father, Mzee Gikara Omogeni, was doing crop farming on pyrethrum and tea, and milk production. May almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace. My mother, Mama Nyamukami, was left in charge of pyrethrum and milk. She used to deliver those produce to Eronge Cooperative Society in a market called Tinderet. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you have been to my home and know the place. At the end of the month, she would go and collect her dues. She would feel proud that she has a salary at the end of the month and not hawking. We were not hawking milk, where you get Kshs10 or 20. No, you would deliver your produce to Eronge Cooperative and, at the end of the month, get your income. Things were working. Unfortunately, those things have since died. Even with the coming of devolution, Eronge Cooperative Society is not there. In my home where I was born, in West Mugirango Constituency, Bosamaro Ward, people had all those cash crops, including pyrethrum. I do not know whether there is any Senator here who will tell you that they still have pyrethrum. It is dead. We used to deliver milk to Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC). The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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