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SACCO INDUSTRY WATCH

EACC TO PARTNER WITH SDC TO

TAME FRAUD

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following the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission Secretary in the State Department for Co-operatives Susan
(EACC) forging a partnership with the State Department Mochache warned that SACCOs were not business entities
of Co-operatives (SDC) in a bid to address the rising cases but jointly owned by members . “All SACCO members have a
of fraud in SACCOs. The move will see the anti-graft agency say in the SACCO as it does not belong to a single individual,”
HMRSHSTSHMFBQHLHM@KBG@QFDR@F@HMRS2 "".N?BH@KR@BBTRDCNE Mochache said. Mochache also highlighted that the case of
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laws. of Criminal Investigation.

With SACCOs being private entities, in the past, cases of EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak urged the SACCOs to operate
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3GDQD @QD NUDQ BN service delivery. “We are coming for SACCOs hiring their
operative societies in the country, a state that has yielded relatives, contributing to the menace,” he said. Mbarak also
pressure on the State Department of Co-operatives which added that the commission has received over 400 complaints
lacks the capacity to sustain this. from the Cooperatives Sector, 16 of which fall within the
Commission’s mandate.
Currently, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and
the State Department of Cooperatives are reviewing a draft EACC Chairman Retired Archbishop Eliud Wabukala also said
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on collaboration and there is need to put in place mechanisms to manage challenges
partnership, to combat and prevent corruption, economic facing the Cooperative Movement in the country to streamline
crimes and unethical conduct in the Cooperatives Sector. their operations.

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