Coffee Cooperative Societies’ creditors at Kenya Bankers Sacco holding a meeting with CS for Cooperatives Simon Chelugui. Photo by Obegi Malack

Team formed to address debt write-off for coffee farmers

Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Simon Chelugui has said the government will form a multi-agency validation team to analyze the submitted debt waiver claims from cooperative societies and prepare a report to the National Treasury for release of funds. The CS who was speaking during a consultative meeting with…

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Fred Sitati, Co-operative Movement Consultant

Draft Cooperatives Bill needs to reflect proposals in Sessional Paper No 4 of 2020

The enactment of the Cooperative Societies Act, No 39 of 1966 was the outcome of the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 on “African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya”, while the subsequent enactment of the Cooperative Societies Act, No 12 of 1997 (Amendment 2004) was anchored on the Sessional Paper No. 6…

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