Sacco Review | The Leading Newspaper for Co-operative Movement in Kenya
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By Andrew Walyaula waliaulaandrew0@gmail.com Lenders in Kenya have gradually adopted the risk lending based mechanism, a move that has led to the rise of credit rating uptake. The Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Regulation 2020 mandates lenders to use a customer’s credit score when appraising a credit application. Metropol CRB General Managing Director Sam Omukoko urged…
By Our Reporter Despite the stellar performance of the Deposit Taking (DT) Saccos during the troubled 2020 financial year, Sacco regulator SASRA blames perennial delays in remittances of statutory deductions for topping the list of un-warranted challenges that hamper the growth and development of the societies. According to the SASRA’s 2020 Sacco supervisory annual report,…
Vitalis Peter Lukiri, the long-serving National Chairman of Afya Sacco has died. Family sources told Sacco Review that he passed on at Nairobi Hospital on Wednesday night after a short illness. He will be remembered for steering the Sacco to become one of the leading Tier 1 co-operative societies in the country. The late Lukiri…
By Sammy Chivanga The number of dormant members in the Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (Sacco) has risen by 79.55 percent to 1.37 million on increased job cuts and delayed salaries from struggling entities. The increase in dormant membership is the fastest in recent years and came on the back of economic fallout that hit…
By Our Reporter Finnlemm Sacco is keen to build the capacity of its staff and board members to ensure informed and prudent decision making. The board also underwent training to enhance board members understanding of their roles and responsibility. The in-house training is being done every year to ensure induction of all new board members. “The…
By Malachi Motano AMREF Sacco has adopted virtual board, staff and member education meetings to meet the Ministry of Health’s social distancing guidelines on Covid-19. The Sacco also introduced an editable loan and membership application forms and allowed members to submit electronic applications to ease engagement. It increased members loan limits to Sh150,000 from Sh70,000…
By Malachi Motano Shining Hope for Communities –SHOFCO is a Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (Sacco) in Nairobi city informal settlements of Kibera and Mathare. Since its establishment five years ago (August 15, 2015), the Sacco has built its membership base from only 10 members to over 4, 000 today out of which over 3,…
By Roy Hezron The Co-operative Sector Baseline Survey report released recently revealed that Nairobi County has the highest number of dormant co-operative societies in the country. A total of 5,723 co-operatives were found to be dormant with Nairobi having1,459, while Mombasa and Kisumu had 425 and 417 dormant co-operatives. The counties with the least number…
By Roy Hezron Cooperative societies raised a total of 13 million to the Co-operative Coronavirus Response Committee (CCRC) to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The committee was constituted by the Department of Co-operatives to cushion vulnerable members in the co-operatives sector who were heavily affected by the pandemic. Speaking to Sacco Review, Commissioner for Co-operatives Mr….
By Jackson Okoth Safaricom Investment Co-operative has joined Ibuka, Nairobi Securities Exchange’s (NSE) premium incubation and acceleration programme for high growth companies in Kenya. The co-operative is joining the Accelerator Board of the programme following a rigorous evaluation and vetting process making it the 18th company to join the programme since its launch in December…
