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    "id": 1566456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "I do not know why you are laughing and imagining that it is a small job. This is a very important job, because you are in charge of thousands of farmers and their affairs. You will be able to tell Sen. Cherarkey why instead of building a huge building and calling it Creameries in Nandi, it will have made sense for them to first build a stronger cooperative movement such as the one that we see in Meru meeting yearly. After you have secured the raw materials, you would then put together a bigger building. Stones and walls do not grow economies, but people do. The bigger challenge for our counties is the obsession with brick and mortar, where you just want to put up a building. I said the same about the County Aggregated Industrial Parks (CAIPs) a few minutes ago. We are told that counties have put together a building of Kshs500 million, but have not taken time to ask them what is it that those counties will be selling. What will Nandi County be selling in its CAIP? What will Kericho be putting in the CAIP that is being built in Kapsorok? The same can be said of all our 47 county governments. Therefore, we must stop this obsession with brick and mortar and invest in people first. Supply the raw material. Let it be in abundance, then we can start struggling about how to collect and organize it in a better way, so that we are able to access markets within and without of the Republic. Part III of the Bill, which has clauses 19 to 27, gives provisions for the structure of cooperatives in Kenya. Members will take time to read and appreciate. Part IV, which is clauses 28 to 43, is provisions for registration of cooperatives, so that you ensure that when a cooperative is registered, there are transition provisions, so that somebody does not run away the way our colleague, and he is not here, Sen. Maanzo, disappeared with an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) certificate in 2007. That has happened in cooperatives many times, where the founder member disappears with a certificate and says, this was mine, yet they were doing it in trust. That process has been streamlined in Clause 28 of this particular Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Part V includes clauses 44 to 50, which contain provisions on the rights and liabilities of members, that is, what members are able to do."
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