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    "id": 851316,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity and welcome back. I also want to contribute to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (No.2) of 2018. It seeks to make amendments on several Acts within that Law. I want to specifically point out two or three areas only. The first one is on the cooperative societies, on which earlier on there was argument on whether we should deal with it or not. I want to demonstrate to the House that the amendment being brought on the cooperative societies is not good for the cooperative societies. I appeal to Members that, like an earlier speaker said, because we are not in the business of looking at who is opposing or supporting the law in Government, we should look at these laws very objectively so that we give good laws to Kenyans. This particular Cooperative Societies Act, Cap. 490 introduces a new phase or class of members within the cooperative movement called “social impact members.” I draw the attention of the House that these social impact members have been given a very easy way of being adopted within the cooperative movement. The proposed law goes ahead to say that a cooperative society’s annual general meeting (AGM) may pass a law by an ordinary resolution. It, therefore, gives very easy leeway for all the cooperatives to create social impact members. If you read the law – and I would want Members to read this law – you will see that the class of members called social impact members are of great influence within the cooperatives, which members have struggled with for a very long time to create, and have been maintaining them."
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