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    "id": 697276,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir I congratulate Sen.Wangari for this Bill that she has brought many years late. I do not know whether there is a Bill that she consulted that had been written on the same before. If there is none, then we lost it from the beginning because I am told that in 1963, in Uhuru Park, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta announced three things. He said that; from now, we will say “Harambee.” That was meant to assist and build one another and that is the motto for self-help association. We did not capture the spirit of the moment so that we translate this into a law which was to govern whatever was taking place. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am told that there was a time during either the Eighth or Ninth Parliament that decided to focus on harambee only. They declared that people should not be giving out money but this is what is happening every day. Even as we speak right now, there are very many groups in the villages and rural areas that deal with their own self-help groups. There is a group called SILK - I do not know its meaning in full. It has now become like a movement. There is another one called Table Banking. It has very many youth and women groups and so on. This is the spirit because such groups put people together in rural areas found in the counties. For that reason, I will ask Sen. Wangari not to propose to anchor this in the national arena because this is a grassroots movement. Part 2 says that there shall be a registrar and deputy registrar that shall be competitively sourced by the Public Service Commission. This should now be left to County Public Service Boards (CPSB) because that is where the real business takes place. It should be removed from the national arena except for the regulations that will be used to manage and monitor these groups from the national Treasury. Having some employee who will lord it over the people in the counties, just like we have had cases of some parastatals cannot assist. If this becomes law, we will see a lot of groups. Villages form a ward and every ward will have this type of movement. Every governor – I cannot see potential governors here – should look at this in order to create a cooperative Bill in their counties. They should set aside not less than Kshs200 million or Kshs500 million per year which will be given as loans to some of the groups because we want to eliminate poverty and make equity the strength of the nation. Because our people are associated with this and they want it to happen, this is very timely. The activity is already taking place but there is no way of managing it."
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