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"content": "said, when they will have such a function in Vihiga County, they will invite me. I think it is in the next few days. Actually, it is this weekend, if I am not wrong. You must make sure that you make comments and tighten the cooperatives space, so that the funds that you will raise for them on Saturday end up benefiting the members, as well as so many other cooperatives that are in your county. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is an important piece of legislation, which I urge colleague Members to support, enrich and ensure that we guide our cooperative space for the betterment of our country. With those remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request the Senator for Kakamega County, the Whip of the Majority Side of the Senate, to second. I thank you."
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"content": " Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, the Senate Majority Whip, please proceed."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is both an honour and privilege, that I am seconding this important Bill because had it not been for the cooperative effort, I would never have owned a home. I am not a ‘dynasty’ like you, from a miraa selling family. Indeed, cooperatives mean many things. Listening to the Senate Majority Leader speak, I want us to think much more. He has on several occasions referred to the self- organisation of members of cooperatives to raise funds. He has mentioned numerous occasions when he has been to initiatives of fundraising for this initiative, up to and including the one that he will do back home in Vihiga County this weekend. Senate Majority Leader, you are most welcome, and please, come with good money because, as you know, I was whispering in your ear last month that your transformation into a mogul is truly celebrated by me, who has a son your age. Therefore, we will be very grateful when the proceeds of your mogul industry come to Vihiga this weekend. More seriously, what do I mean by we should think it further? We cannot expect to achieve equity by relying on harambees."
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"content": "I know, because he is a man of many networks, any politician who becomes the guest of honour at a serious function like this has good connections in several offices of Government. If it is from Government that some of the monies that they donate in those"
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"content": "come from, then we should restructure the Government, so that everybody who is sufficiently organised, who demonstrates understanding and existence of the cooperative effort, should have access to that money. This is no different from the effort by all Senators led by the Senator for Kiambu County, the young Sen. Karungo Thang’wa, who is suggesting that we amalgamate all bursary efforts, so that all funds that can help children who require money can be taken back to the Ministry of Education and education can be made free."
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "The reason for this is the thinking which we support in this bursary issue is because we want to see every child have an equal opportunity to bursaries. The best way is just to use those monies to make education free. Since we cannot make something like cooperatives free, let us think deeper, harder and longer, so that we see how the state can provide “seed money” for people who want to cooperate. Just like all of you, you cannot be in politics and lack in your cap a feather of what you have done for the cooperative effort in this country. The country is laden with cases of success just as it is with cases of failure and conmanship. I hope that with this law, we will now make it easier for people to have confidence in the safety of their funds. The people who are in charge of the cooperative movement at whatever level, community or whichever level, end up stealing money meant for these people. My daughter was doing internship years ago with this body that brings cooperatives together. It is called the Kenya Union of Savings and Credit cooperatives (KUSCCO) housed at Upper Hill. My daughter used to look very nice working there. I had a lot of respect for them only to learn later on that the person who had been in charge of that Union had been stealing. They have stolen billions of shillings from cooperatives. It is extremely unfortunate. Since we have not gone through with a tooth comb in this pen, if the controls are not there, we will put them there. However, if they are there and they are not tight enough, we are going to tighten them because we want the cooperative effort to be a success. I remember in 2003 as a young dashing Parliamentarian, I had a discussion with the now director maybe and Clerk-at-the-Table. I had just come as a young Member of Parliament and he had just been employed here. He was telling me about the success of the cooperative movement back in Central Province. Having been a son of western because he went to school at Mukumu High School and his uncle had a good business in Kakamega Town, we were friends. So, I went back and the first thing I did was to learn from central and I went to the"
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"content": "boda boda"
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