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    "id": 1477568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1477568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "with tea in the country. We need solutions, especially where the farmers are organized in cooperatives. I am pleading with Sen. Mariam Omar to liaise with hon. Ichungwa. I believe she will reply today. After she replies, a question will be put and we will go to Third Reading. During the Third Reading, she should have a meeting with hon. Ichungwa so that we can put our heads together. This will make sure Kenyans are served better by a better law, bearing in mind that cooperatives are a very important part of our identical system. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to inform the House that when I was the cooperative movement’s secretary, quite a number of farmers from Mandera used to come to my office, bringing certain issues about the farming cooperatives there. I want the Government to support all cooperatives in every part of the country, so that all of us can be served equally by the law and have an equal opportunity. There are many grants, which come from cooperatives from World Council Credit Union (WOKU) and International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). They also mentor small growing cooperatives. They supported some cooperatives in Busia. Cooperatives all over the country should be served equally by law. We want to see people in our country prosper and have better lives. That will not happen without proper cooperative law. We need a better way of managing our cooperative societies through legislation that is consistent, synchronized and working for the people of Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will support the Bill once the two laws are corrected and the amalgamation takes place. I have realized that Sen. Mariam Omar's law has a lot to enrich hon. Ichungwa's law and the Ministry's law. If the two can sit together, this country will be much better. I appreciate Sen. Mariam Omar for fitting into this gap and coming at a time Kenyans need us most to make a law so important as a cooperative's law. I thank you."
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