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    "content": "When we enquired from the receiver managers as recently as 14th of August, so that we are up to date, they said, they were relying on the receivers, who exercise their power of entry under Clause 12 of debenture dated 17th August, 1992. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, they are citing 20 years ago. They got the authority 20 years ago, so that they could do what they did to the KPCU. There is no one to describe the suffering of the coffee farmers and the frustration that has been caused by this. Again, this matter has been captured very well in the report. This report has taken the Committee over two years to compile with a lot of other supporting information. I would like to encourage hon. Members to read through this report. But before the Minister for Finance takes leave, it is important that he take this message home. The whole mess at KPCU was by the Executive. When the receiver managers came to the premises, the OCS Kamkunji Police Station declined to force entry to the KPCU citing the fact that they lacked necessary court documents. But the colleagues at the Administration Police (AP) thought they were the marshal men and they moved there and they hassled everybody and threw everybody out. So, one part of the Government said they did not have the court documents--- I thank the police for doing that. I wonder why the AP forced their entry. All these happened with the blessings from the Ministry of Co-operative Development and Marketing. This is another arm of the Executive. Again, in one of the pages in this report, the Minister is cited by the local media to say that that he was very happy that KPCU had collapsed. Again, this is the Executive. Let us not wash our dirty linen in public in this particular aspect. Now that these people have been battered for a fault that is not their own, consider this report the way we are recommending. We are recommending that all the members who number now one million contribute Kshs1000 to renew their membership and commitment to KPCU that will earn them approximately Kshs1 billion. If it pleases the hon. Minister, he can chip in Kshs1.2 billion, so that they can clear the mess with any serious and genuine debt. Since the Minister for Agriculture is here and it is in her portfolio - and it is cited very strongly in this particular Report - she can also consider writing off whatever is owed by the Coffee Board of Kenya, to truly reflect the will to have Kenya Planters Co- operative Union (KPCU) back on its feet."
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