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Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Co-operatives (KUSCCO) National Chairman George Magutu has urged women and youth to vie for leadership positions in their societies to take them to the next level. Magutu said for many years, youth and women have been sidelined and they must be ready to take up positions, even that of…
Mentor Sacco Society Limited is set to auction a Ksh300 million property in Nairobi’s Ngara area belonging to Mugoiri Development Company Limited. This is after Commercial and Tax Division Court Judge Justice David Majanja, on August 24, issued the ruling in a dispute where the Company had filed a suit seeking to block the Sacco…
Saccos hired 3,430 agents in towns across the country in a strategy aimed at ensuring efficient and effective services for their members. According to the Sacco Supervision Report for 2022 released by the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA), 36 Deposit-Taking (DT) Saccos hired 3,430 agents to help them handle customer transactions, which helped to cut…
Tembo Sacco is selling Tembo Co-op House, a commercial building located along Moi Avenue in Nairobi. The sale is being facilitated by Tysons Limited. The property is a solid construction fully occupied and let to stable tenants, has ground floors with shops as well as seven upper floors with offices. The property has a reliable…
Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) is set to propose a law that will see the National Treasury deduct money directly from funds allocated to public agencies. This is after the Sacco Supervision Report for 2022 indicated that 80 regulated Saccos did not get Ksh2.67 billion from employers, which were deductions from the pay of 66,452…
Cooperatives and MSMEs Cabinet Secretary (CS) Simon Chelugui has said co-operatives have been an important socio-economic development tool since independence, and thus the need to channel all resources through the sector. “We want to reposition our country in all sectors through the cooperative model for meaningful growth, including in the realization of the bottom-up economic…
Bungoma County Chief Officer for Cooperatives Development Beatrice Nakhumicha has urged the county government to sensitize cooperative society leaders on leadership and management. Speaking during the International Cooperative Day celebrations, Nakhumicha attributed the collapse of cooperative societies in the region to management wrangles and argued that training the leaders on management will help solve the…
Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Co-operatives (KUSCCO) has marked its 50 years of existence with a share capital of Ksh2.99 billion in 2022 that had risen from Ksh2.81 billion previously, which represents a growth of 6.4 per cent. National Chairman George Magutu revealed this as he highlighted their achievements in the housing sector, where…
Dairy cooperatives in Kiambu County dominated the awards in this year’s International Day of Cooperatives, Kiambu chapter, held at Karuri Primary School grounds in Kiambaa Sub-county. Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society, the third largest milk processor in the country, emerged the winner in large society’s category and was awarded as the best in value addition/innovation with diverse…
The Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development Cabinet Secretary (CS) Simon Chelugui has urged Saccos to support the development of different value chains in the country in order to uplift livelihoods. Speaking in Kakamega during the launch of Invest and Grow (IG) Sacco’s 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, the CS urged Saccos…
