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    "id": 1495578,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495578/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "We are here today to stand in support of the Cooperatives Bill (National Assembly Bill No.7 of 2024). It is important for us to understand that the cooperative movement in this country is as old as this country and the process that leads to this particular Bill, started in the 12th Parliament. I must laud the former Principal Secretary, Ali Noor Ismail, for having mooted this idea, thought about it and indeed, walked through the journey. We started by passing the National Cooperatives Policy that laid the framework for review of the 1997 Act that was amended in 2014. This now gives you the importance of starting from the very bottom in the legislative making process whereby you start with the policy. The policy will identify policy and legislative gaps that we have to address as we are doing here today. We passed and inaugurated the new Constitution in 2010. Therefore, the old Act had to be renewed, amended or revised to meet emerging issues. With new technology in the market and the ever-expanding scope of the co-operative movement, it became necessary that we truly amend the Act."
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