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    "id": 1495545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "This Bill seeks to give effect to all those provisions to ensure that the days of EKEZA SACCO are forgotten. We saw people in Kiambu and across the country being conned by someone calling himself a bishop. He used the church to mobilise people to join a SACCO called EKEZA and eventually took off with their money. The purported cooperative was being sold to people as a savings society. At one point, it was a housing co-operative while at another time it was a land buying co-operative. This Bill is categorising the four tiers of co-operative societies that will be there and stating who will license, who will register, and how cooperatives will be managed. We cannot allow anybody with a collar, calling himself a bishop, to mobilise church goers and tell them to join a purported cooperative for the church. There must be a legal framework that will stipulate how you register that co-operative, how it will be managed and the governance structures that must be adhered to. We have four tiers of co-operative societies, being primary co-operatives, secondary co-operatives, and co-operative federations. We have several cooperatives coming together to form a federation and purporting to be a federation of co-operatives. Equally, we have had officials of small co-operatives come together to form purported confederation of co-operatives only for those officials to swindle the primary co- operatives. It will not be possible for any group of people to do that once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament and the law becomes operational. We also have apex cooperatives, on which this Bill goes into great detail. Members of Parliament and Kenyans will read the contents of the Bill and see how they are categorised. Who can be a member of a primary cooperative? Who can join a secondary cooperative? What is the membership of cooperative federations, and even apex cooperative societies? The Bill also creates offices such as the Office of the Commissioner for Cooperative Development at the national level, but also provides for offices at the county level. That is now clear in this proposed legislation. In the past, it was not clear whether the Commissioner for"
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