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"content": "counties that will be in control of these cooperatives and therefore the creation of the county directors. I am glad that in this Bill, there has been an attempt to recognise the fact that if we do not coordinate the activities at the national level with the activities at the county level, we will fall flat on our faces. Therefore, this intergovernmental structure, which has been put in this Bill is a very good thing but, when I look at the membership of that structure, it begs for an amendment. The commissioner, as a member that is okay; the directors in the 47 counties are okay. However, when it comes to a person appointed by the governor, I want to request and persuade you not to give the governor that kind of latitude. He has sufficient latitude to appoint many other people. Let this be an institutional self-sustaining process, since the county public service board will be having a say in the appointment of the county director of cooperatives, instead of the governor appointing some other stranger, probably a relative or a girlfriend, the way they normally do. Allow the Chairman of the County Public Service Board (CPSB) to be the one to sit on this intergovernmental body. So that it is automatic. The Chairman of the Board is independent when he is there, rather than when you have picked a character who has come there at the pleasure of the governor of the respective county. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the amendment I propose in Clause 16 that says that there shall be the chief executive officer of the authority, and an officer appointed by the council of governors. No, they should be appointed by the chairs of County Public Service Board. Having said this, I can see an effort in this Bill in Clause 20 where under the structure of cooperatives in Kenya, we have created primary cooperatives, secondary cooperatives, cooperative federations, and the apex cooperative. This is a very visionary classification. It is the lack of clarity in the structure of cooperatives that opens up members to being conned. That, for example, in the primary classification, you have put from A to B all the way to G, the specifications of what a primary cooperative is, is something that is even a greater reason for us to celebrate this. Let me use the example of a primary cooperative in the sector of producer cooperatives. “This shall be a cooperative registered under this act with the objects of production, processing, and marketing of members' produce.” This is useful so that people in the production industry do not end up getting confused, for example, with their monies being heaped together with people from, say, the cooperative sector. I say this with a degree of nostalgia because I remember when I was a little boy of 10 years, our then Member of Parliament had this vision. So he created Ikolomani Cooperative Society at the same time that Githunguri cooperative Society was created when I was a 10-year-old schoolboy. Every Friday, so that our parents could be encouraged to take care and like breaded animals, we used to be given cheese at school, so that we go home and tell our parents, cheese comes from milk, which is produced in"
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