Sacco Review | The Leading Newspaper for Co-operative Movement in Kenya
The Leading Newspaper for Co-operative Movement in Kenya
By Azael Masese Failure by co-operative members to interrogate the performance of their respective organisations has been identified as a weakness that needs urgent remedy. Intriguingly, this happens even in Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (Saccos) where majority of the members are the elite, leading to embezzlement of members’ savings. State Department of Co-operatives Senior…
By Munene Maina The Government has moved with speed to avert money laundering within savings and credit societies. At a time when several banks were implicated in the infamous National Youth Service scandal for violating the law leading to loss of billions of public money, the Government wants to seal all loopholes that may allow…
By Munene Maina The National Coffee Co-operative Union (NACCU) has affirmed its support for Coffee Subsector Implementation Committee. In a press release, the union said it was fully behind the implementation committee led by Prof. Joseph Kieyah and supports the execution of all the eight pillars of the Presidential taskforce reforms report. It said the…
By Munene Maina The State Department of Co-operative has issued a notice to dormant co-operative societies to shape up or close shop. Permanent Secretary in the department Ali Ismail said they will liquidate all non-performing societies in the country. Statistics from government indicate that more than half of over 21,000 registered societies are inactive. In…
By Peter K. Angore Imarika Sacco has officially opened a new branch at Bamba trading centre. This brings the number of the Sacco’s fully fledged branches to seven. The new branch comes as relieve to the members and residents especially in the hinterland of Ganze Sub-county who will now get services closer home. Kilifi County…
By Kiptanui Rutto Chogoria Ward Member of County Assembly, Margaret Gitari has called on co-operative societies in the region to add value to the farmers’ produce. She said the societies should be a bridge between the farmers and the consumers. Speaking during the launch of Ndosha Light Industrial Park supported by Ndosha Sacco at Wiru…
By Eugene Kioko Members of a housing co-operative society have expressed fears for their lives after a gang of armed people believed to be hired by land cartels invaded their property. The 4,000 members of Kamulu Housing and Co-operative Society who have settled on 2,300 acres of land bought by the society said their lives…
By Benedict Ng’etich Sinendet Tea Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society posted a net surplus of Sh36 million in 2017 and asset growth of Sh608.3 million. This was despite leaf production decrease by 8.01 per cent to 4.52 million kilogrammes in the year. “This drop is attributed largely to the labour strikes which were prevalent in the country…
By Musa Radoli The Senior Deputy Co-operative Commissioner, Geoffrey Jang’ombe has told the co-operative societies in the country to avoid borrowing externally from the commercial financial institutions even if they were hard pressed by their liquidity status due to delays to get remittances from the County or National governments ministries. “Savings and credit societies are…
