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    "id": 1566458,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1566458/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "You and I are representatives of the farmers. We have the Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings (KTDAs) factories in our counties. KTDAs are forms of cooperatives because it is the farmers who have come together, put up a factory and handed over management of that particular factory to a managing agent called KTDA. That is a form of a cooperative, as much as they are governed under the Companies Act. That is something that we were not able to resolve when we were passing the Tea (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.1 of 2023) in this House. I hope that in this term of Parliament, we can provide clarity, because in my opinion, you should not subject anything that is owned by a multitude to the same set of laws as a company that is owned by either a sole proprietor or three or four individuals. These are companies that are owned by thousands of people. Therefore, I believe they should be governed by the cooperative Act, more than companies. That is why, a watchman can stop an innocent farmer in Nkubu from accessing the factory next door, yet that farmer is the owner of that factory through their contribution of the tea that they sell to that factory each year. We have provided for the rights and liabilities of members in our cooperatives in clauses 55 to 66. Clauses 67 and 68 provide for amalgamation and division of the various types of cooperatives that you have, outlining what is it that is a smaller cooperative and a larger one. We did not want to lump all of them together. A cooperative such as yours, the one that I have given as a perfect example, or Imarisha in Kericho County, that has tens of thousands of members cannot be governed by the same set of laws, for example, Kapsoit"
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