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    "id": 1566470,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr. Khalwale)",
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    "content": "The reason for this is the thinking which we support in this bursary issue is because we want to see every child have an equal opportunity to bursaries. The best way is just to use those monies to make education free. Since we cannot make something like cooperatives free, let us think deeper, harder and longer, so that we see how the state can provide “seed money” for people who want to cooperate. Just like all of you, you cannot be in politics and lack in your cap a feather of what you have done for the cooperative effort in this country. The country is laden with cases of success just as it is with cases of failure and conmanship. I hope that with this law, we will now make it easier for people to have confidence in the safety of their funds. The people who are in charge of the cooperative movement at whatever level, community or whichever level, end up stealing money meant for these people. My daughter was doing internship years ago with this body that brings cooperatives together. It is called the Kenya Union of Savings and Credit cooperatives (KUSCCO) housed at Upper Hill. My daughter used to look very nice working there. I had a lot of respect for them only to learn later on that the person who had been in charge of that Union had been stealing. They have stolen billions of shillings from cooperatives. It is extremely unfortunate. Since we have not gone through with a tooth comb in this pen, if the controls are not there, we will put them there. However, if they are there and they are not tight enough, we are going to tighten them because we want the cooperative effort to be a success. I remember in 2003 as a young dashing Parliamentarian, I had a discussion with the now director maybe and Clerk-at-the-Table. I had just come as a young Member of Parliament and he had just been employed here. He was telling me about the success of the cooperative movement back in Central Province. Having been a son of western because he went to school at Mukumu High School and his uncle had a good business in Kakamega Town, we were friends. So, I went back and the first thing I did was to learn from central and I went to the"
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