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Kenya’s banking sector shows resilience despite tight lending and rising credit risks, CBK 2024, 2025 report

Sacco ReviewDecember 1, 202507 mins

Kenya’s financial sector remained resilient in 2024 and the first half of 2025, even as lending slowed and credit risks increased, according to the latest Financial Sector Stability Report released by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). The sector comprised thirty-eight commercial banks, one mortgage finance institution, and fourteen deposit-taking microfinance banks (MFBs), all under…

CS Oparanya monitors impact of NYOTA program training in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties

Sacco ReviewDecember 1, 202503 mins

Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and MSMEs Development, Wycliffe Oparanya has visited NYOTA Business Development Services (BDS) training centers in Kiambu and Nairobi counties to assess the progress, beneficiary engagement, and overall impact of the entrepreneurship training program as it nears completion. In Kiambu County, CS Oparanya visited ACK Kiu River School, which hosted eight training…

Parliamentary inquiry into tea pricing, farmer bonuses reveals farmers’ divisions in Rift Valley

Sacco ReviewNovember 30, 2025November 30, 202506 mins

A parliamentary inquiry into tea pricing and farmer bonuses has exposed deep divisions between East and West Rift Valley producers, with western growers demanding fair representation and a review of the grading system. Farmers raised key concerns like the perceived bias in factory classifications, the dominance of multinationals in the West Rift and the unequal…

Govt directs investigations into KUSCCO housing projects over alleged corruption

Sacco ReviewNovember 30, 202502 mins

The government has launched a formal inquiry into KUSCCO Housing Co-operative Society Limited following member complaints alleging that the society was used to siphon savings from affiliated SACCOs. In a Gazette notice dated October 28, 2025 (No. 17555), the government directs investigators to scrutinise the society’s by-laws, financial records, and the conduct of both current…

Coffee cooperatives reject Government’s direct pay to farmers

Sacco ReviewNovember 29, 202504 mins

The National Coffee Cooperative Union (NACCU) has rejected a government directive seeking to implement a direct-to-farmer payment model under the Direct Settlement System (DSS), arguing that the policy threatens to dismantle long-standing cooperative structures that manage coffee earnings at pulping-station level. NACCU Chairman Felix Mureithi Mwai said the directive issued on November 2024 by Cabinet…

Kagwe urges lenders, donors to reduce lending rates to 3% for farmers to benefit

Sacco ReviewNovember 28, 202504 mins

The Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe has issued a bold call to lenders and development partners to radically reform agricultural financing models, saying farmers will never achieve meaningful growth unless credit becomes affordable and donor funding is restructured to deliver direct impact at the farm level. Speaking during the Intergovernmental Agriculture…

Over 7 million farmers to benefit as Gov’t acquires digital agriculture system

Sacco ReviewNovember 28, 202504 mins

Over 7 million farmers are set to benefit from a pivotal digital transformation in the agriculture sector after the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and development partners handed over the Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (KIAMIS) to the Ministry of Agriculture. The handover witnessed during the ongoing Intergovernmental Forum on Agriculture in Naivasha was…

Lawmakers intensify probe on tea pricing in Kenya as KTGA, KTDA appear before agriculture committee

Sacco ReviewNovember 28, 2025November 28, 202505 mins

Members of Parliament, (MPs) have intensified investigation on the contentious tea pricing in the country, putting Kenya Tea Growers Association (KTGA) and Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) on the hot seat to come clean on the woos surrounding the sector. Appearing before the Agriculture and Livestock Committee for inquiry, KTGA CEO, Lindah Oluoch while answering…

CS Kagwe urges counties, private sectors to revitalise agricultural sector through technological innovation

Sacco ReviewNovember 27, 202506 mins

Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has challenged counties and private sector players to “break out of routine, abandon comfort zones, and rethink agriculture from the ground up,” adapting to the technological innovations in the sector. CS Kagwe who officially launched the two-day Intergovernmental Agriculture Forum (IGAF) 2025, warned that Kenya cannot solve…

Cane farmers oppose proposals to exempt manufacturers, importers from 4% levy

Sacco ReviewNovember 27, 202505 mins

Sugar cane farmers in the country have vehemently opposed proposals to exempt exporters and manufacturers importing white refined industrial sugar from paying the four per cent Sugar Development Levy. Sugar Campaign for Change (Sucam), coordinator Michael Arum said in a statement that farmers described the proposal by the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) as “misguided, legally unfounded,…