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    "content": "they could not repair their lifts and they could not sweep the corridors because of procurement challenges. They could not even walk in daylight and say that they are chairman or secretary because there was a private case that had come in handy and everybody believed that they had a criminal case. We checked the documents and there were rulings in court that, indeed, the people who were accusing them did not have locusstandi and the matter, more or less, ended there. This means that they could not even be challenged in our stringent Chapter 6 of the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in respect to alleged irregular payment of honoraria amounting to Kshs8.8 million – and I want to explain to the Mwaliko Commission that there is a habit or procedure in these SACCOs that whenever they have a commission then they have to pay for it – I want to confirm to this House that Parliament paid for this one. It is not going to appear in future inquiries as in Mwaliko’s case. This amount of money was subsequently approved on the 32nd AGM meeting on 9th October, 2003 and the matter comes to rest. With regard to the alleged use of contingency monies, and IOUs, the Committee observed that these monies had not been properly accounted for in the period 2006 to 2009 and the Committee, therefore, recommends prompt re-accounting of the monies whenever they are issued and that those who may owe the SACCO outstanding contingencies be surcharged as they did with the two officers whom again, is not the interest of this House to name, because we do not want to harm their families and themselves, given that they are already paying for that particular money and there is a surcharge. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with respect to allegations on claim by the CMC and the issue of death threats, I said that I will tell you later the case number. The case in question is a Criminal Case No.721 of 2010 and the person threatened is Macloid Malonza. It is not Macloid Malonza threatening the other party. So, the Committee scrutinized the documents with the help of the Attorney-General and found out that the people who were being accused were threatening the SACCO Chairman and not the SACCO Chairman threatening the members. In respect to allegations of the CMC being in office after the expiry of the terms, the Committee observed that their being in office was in conformity with the Co- operative Society Rules of 2004 as amended vide Legal Notice No.3 of 2008 in consonance with recommendations of the Mwaliko Report. The Committee noted that the CMC has performed well in improving the services delivery and profitability of the SACCO as discussed in detail in the Report. I want to say that the taste is in the pudding. We found out that these people started at negative Kshs500 million and now they have to their credit Kshs13.5 billion but when you discount that on liabilities, they have Kshs3.5 billion. That is their net worth Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in respect to alleged land grabbing by SACCO officials, the Committee found no material evidence to support this claim and as such, the Committee made no further investigations on the matter. In respect to alleged shoddy investigative work by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the police and, the inability of the Attorney-General to prosecute the cases thereof, this was hampered by lack of vital documents and failure by complainants to record statements. I"
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