Solomon Otim
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania District Releases Emyooga Cash
KWANIA –After passing the multi-layered fit-and-proper test, at least four out of 36 Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Kwania district have finally received Shs 30 million each under the Presidential Initiative…
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Microfinance Institutions In Trouble In Kwania
KWANIA –In Kwania and Apac Northern districts Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs) have become the preferred go-to lenders threatening to lock out microfinance institutions. The SACCOs are drawing in huge numbers…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango Farmers Turn To Hass Avocado
LANGO – Frustrated by poor local yields and wavering low crop prices, farmers in the Northern districts of Kwania, Apac, Lira, Kole and Dokolo are switching to the high value Hass Avocado…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Abapiri Farmers Lobby For Shs 400m Warehouse
KWANIA –Frustrated by how little farm produce they can stash away, a 450-member group of farmers allied with Abapiri Oil Seed Cooperative Society, in Abapiri Village, in Chawente Sub County, Kwania District…
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Emyooga Program Is Not Political –Lira RDC
LIRA –Appearing on 88.0 Voice of Lango FM, Lira Deputy Resident Commissioner rigorously fended off pointed allegations that the Presidential Initiative On Job and Wealth Creation, Emyooga program, was introduced to benefit…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Court Summons Civil Servants Over Forgery
LIRA – Grade One magistrate’s court in Lira has issued summons for three civil servants accused of forging an attendance list of the annual general meeting of Ayago SACCO. The summons were…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Budget: Kwania Cooperatives Get Shs 89m
KWANIA –The district local council has allocated Shs 89,378,000 million to run cooperatives next financial year. The money will go to the 14 fully registered Saccos in the Northern district, and 917 Village…
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Kwania boda operators Protest government tax
A government-pushed proposal to levy an extra tax of Shs 50,000 on motorcycles has touched off a fierce debate and protest among members of Kwania Boda Boda Savings and Credit Cooperative Society…
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Tempers flare in Kwania over ‘emyooga money
The long-delayed release of emyooga funds, poverty eradication cash, in Kwania is fanning a wave of raging anger in the Northern District. Aduku Town Council leaders have asked the government to explain…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Odongo was poor but Loro-Oyam Sacco lifted him out of poverty
In 2016 Pasquelli Odongo, 42, dreamt of building a residential house in his village, Ayom-Apwono, in Aber Sub County, and five years later he is a proud owner of a modest three-room…
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