SACCOs
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Boss Jailed Over Emyooga Cash Theft
KIKUUBE –Authorities in the Western District of Kikuube have arrested John Paul Mugabi, the chairman of Buhaguzi Constituency Mechanics Saving and Credit Co-operative Society (SACCO), on suspicion of stealing Shs 21 million…
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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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Seventeen SACCOs pass fitness test, get registration certificates
SOROTI – Seventeen out of 18 Saccos in Soroti City East Division passed the fit-and-proper test and finally got their certificates of registration and bylaws from the registrar of cooperatives. The certificates,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima Sacco, Government clash over Shs 50m loan
HOIMA – In a speech at the annual general meeting of the Hoima District Referees Saving and Credit Co-Operative Society (Sacco), Board Chairman Patrick Kunihira, publicly voiced his concern about a deliberate…
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Cooperatives & Communities
New Sacco to give out Cheap loans in Hoima
The newly launched KASSOBA SACCO is on course to open with offers of cheap loans to members of Kabalega Secondary School Old Boys Association (KASSOBA). The official launch was on April 3…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Long-dormant sacco in Masindi bounces back
A long-dormant savings and cooperative credit society has been revived. The Masindi Savings and Cooperative Credit Society Limited has been revived by members after a two-year lull. The SACCO membership comprises mainly…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima leaders locked in fight over cooperative union
Even before it gets off the paper, a plan by businessman Abdu Mariki Mugisa to form Bunyoro farmer’s Cooperative has drawn strong opposition largely from leaders in the western district of Hoima…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Aninolal SACCO gets farm inputs from UK-based Lango Association
177 members of Aninolal Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO), Kwania district, have received farm inputs from Lango Association Living in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Global Support Development Initiative,…
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