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    "id": 1566452,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "extremely powerful officers because many of our people are organising themselves into cooperatives. Sen. Mungatana, we seek to pass this piece of legislation so as to ensure that those men and women have sufficient powers to ensure that even the young people that you are about to tell me to go and fundraise for, for example, in Tana River--- The minute they raise money, three or four officials should not meet and misappropriate those funds and disappear into thin air. We should regulate that space in a particular way that ensures that savings and earnings of members of a particular society or cooperative are guaranteed. That is part and parcel of things we are trying to do. We have even provided the space for county assembly legislations with regards to this particular Bill because we do this with the full realisation that there are two levels of Government. There is what the national Government can do and what county governments ought to do with regards to regulations of cooperatives and the kind of support they can channel to our cooperatives. Therefore, this Bill in its entirety seeks to amend Cap. 2A and to provide timelines for making regulations to ensure implementation of laws passed by Parliament- -- Just a minute because I referred to the wrong notes. This Bill seeks to provide a legal framework that promotes a sustainable and competitive cooperatives sector for socio-economic development in a devolved system of government. More specifically, this Bill seeks to provide for matters relating to promotion, registration and more importantly, regulation of cooperatives and to give life to Article 186 of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. Further, this Bill establishes the following offices: The office of the commissioner for cooperatives development at the national level and the office of the county director for cooperatives at the county government level and to provide for the intergovernmental co-operation at both levels. That is very important. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not possible to regulate our Saccos from here in Nairobi. That is part of where the problem was because people in Nairobi would send a fellow from, I do not know which part of the country, to go and sit at the head office in Kakamega and expect that they will have the interests of a cooperative society deep in Malinya where Sen. Boni comes from. That fellow will never have interest because they do not care. They just wait for 30th to get their salary. If you have a son or daughter of the soil who knows that it is in their best interest for cooperatives in the county to succeed, they will move around. They understand the cultural dynamics and sensitivities of that particular part of the country. They know that you cannot arrange this and this and put together. They can even visit members and speak to them in a dialect that they understand on the importance of the cooperative movement. I like that departure of the realization. I like Bills such as this, that appreciate that there are two levels of Government; that, as much as we are one people, we are equally distinct; that there are certain things which if Sen. Boni Khalwale does, they will be okay in Kakamega County. However, if I was to do them in Kericho County, I will run into trouble and vice versa. That is who God made us to be. I appreciate when we pass laws that buy into that particular kind of arrangement."
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