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    "id": 510872,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/510872/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Makenga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1650,
        "legal_name": "Richard Makenga Katemi",
        "slug": "richard-makenga-katemi"
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    "content": "placed under receivership by the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) for failure to service a Kshs.644 million loan that accrued interest to Kshs1.4 billion; Despite a directive from the former President, hon. Mwai Kibaki, to revive the KPCU in September, 2011, the Commissioner for Co-operative Development has been attempting to scuttle all the revival efforts as evidenced by a serious conflict of interest, since he sits on the board of directors of a competitor; the Kenya Co-operative Coffee Exporters, and as proven by his failure to support the Union in its compensation claim against the Cooperative Insurance Company (CIC). Despite being a board member at the insurance firm, his orders to call for elections allowed persons barred by a National Assembly resolution of August, 2012, to vie for positions in the irregularly convened elections; his deliberately unsupportive approach to all matters concerning the settling of the aforementioned KCB debt and lifting of the receivership of the Union and generally by his failure to faithfully and diligently perform his duties and responsibilities to expected standards, the petition by the shareholders of the KPCU Ltd is for the removal of the Commissioner for Co-operative Development. Noting that intervention efforts at addressing the myriad of challenges posed by the Commissioner for Cooperative Development and sustaining KPCU’s revival are best handled by the appropriate Government agencies, and noting further that issues in respect of which the petition is made are not pending before any court of law, or any constitutional or legal body; Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives:- (i) investigates the conduct of the Commissioner for Cooperative Development with a view to sanctioning, censoring and removing him from his position; (ii) urges the Government to support the Union’s revival efforts by writing off its outstanding debts, injecting capital and granting the interim board a three-year operational period to allow for stabilization; (iii) directs the Co-operative Bank of Kenya to forthwith cease meddling in KPCU affairs and micro-managing the coffee industry; and, Your petitioners will ever pray."
}