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"content": "the proposals of Dr. Zani and Sen. Mariam Omar, which are very good, and what is already is in the Bill. Currently, the Bill is a total overhaul. The cooperatives movement begins from the village, comes to the county and national government, and then goes international. We have the International Cooperative Alliance, which carries all the cooperative societies in the world. I had shared that with Sen. Mariam Omar. I was asking whether she had taken time to compare notes with the best practices in the world, especially Europe. The Senate should have sponsored her to visit some of the best practices in the world and bring them home. Other than the cooperative societies, we have the National Cooperative Alliance here. There are huge businesses associated with the cooperative movement, including the Cooperative Bank of Kenya and the CIC Insurance Group. They work together in consultation with the international movement, which is doing very well in Canada, in the United States of America (USA). In fact, it is a very good business model if you want to transform a nation by changing the economic situations. When people work in cooperatives, they pull resources together and are very strong. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of corruptions and cartels in the cooperatives. There is the SASRA, which we did their regulations as a Senate the other day. We also have organizations associated with the cooperative movement. This is a very heavy movement. It is a 15-million-member movement in Kenya. We still have cooperative societies dealing with tea, coffee and milk, which are fake, including the New KCC. We had a request for statements from Sen. Mandago the other day. The complications are so much that we need a law to sort them out. We also need the Government to be involved because it is part of the problem. There is a need to make thorough consultations, including consulting the counties and the CoG to make sure that they are carried along. The Commissioner of cooperatives is the most important person in this room. He is, in fact, more responsible and expected to take care of the movement better than the Principal and Cabinet Secretary. He is a key person. He is a registrar and there is only one registry in the country. This registry needs to be devolved in a way. However, without the parent registry, you are likely to duplicate the names and the roles. While devolution is a reality and is in the Constitution, this law needs to synchronize a lot of things. What do you do with the original registry which is in the national Government and the other smaller registries in the counties? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you propose to change from Commissioner of Co-operatives to Director of Co-operatives, there will be contradiction in the counties. This is because the counties have directors, while the commissioner is with the national Government. There is a policy which went through the National Assembly some years ago and the law is drawn from this policy. This policy was approved even by the President after it was passed by the Houses. Therefore, there is that to be looked at. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I like the work put therein, bearing in mind that this is an amendment Bill, which seeks to amend certain sections. It does not seek to overhaul the whole Act. It has also come in good faith and has heavily borrowed from previous researches. It is very well done, meaning that Sen. Mariam Omar consulted serious experts. 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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