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    "id": 1507650,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1507650/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I need to be on record that the reason we were earnestly looking forward to this Bill is because of the mess that commissioners for co-operatives have caused in our primary co-operatives. There have been a lot of issues, irregularities and lack of standards and other processes within our co- operatives that are supervised by the commissioners. We have lost a lot of money and assets belonging to primary and producer co-operatives under the sanction of the same commissioners. If we do not assert ourselves on matters of regulations, what is the criteria? We must protect farmers, especially producers, from the extremes we have registered in the past. Just to explain a little - I know I am not supposed to be debating - there are co-operatives whose money has been lost from their accounts under the sanction of the same commissioners for co-operatives. How do we make a new law and still accommodate them by giving them the same power they had? That was the spirit of the new Co-operatives Bill. We must be clear. If we are giving them power to authorise, then to what extent? That is what Hon. Oundo is saying. Otherwise, we are going to get ourselves back to where we were. The reason most farmers have lost their assets and property is because somebody in the name of the commissioner sanctioned it. How do we tame them so that they do not misuse the power we give them through this Bill? Otherwise, it will be retrogressive to have a new Co-operatives Bill and still give the same offenders an opportunity to repeat the offence."
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