This archive report was first published on 5 July 2021.
Published on July 5, 2021, the State Department of Cooperatives (SDC) is in the final stages of transforming passenger transport Saccos into cooperatives.
According to Commissioner of Cooperatives Geoffrey Njangombe, the process is now awaiting stakeholder sensitization.
The transformation aims to enable transparent accounting and delink the current Sacco business from the transport cooperative society.
The SDC plans to carry out a nationwide stakeholder empowerment programme on the new development for full implementation.
"We intend to meet with all stakeholders in the matatu industry, through seminars and workshops in different places and towns to help them understand the development," says Njangombe.
Committee members of the existing PSV SACCOs will attend sensitization meetings on the transformation organized by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and other players in the transport sector.
Each committee will organize sensitization meetings for their members, explaining the new changes, implications, and ratification of the bylaws, then present amended bylaws to the Commissioner of Cooperatives Development for registration.
The PSV owners will be required to brand their vehicles with the name Transport Co-operative (‘Trans-Coop’) or such other agreed acronym for PSV Transport Cooperative Society.
Each society will be required to develop an enforceable code of conduct, and all elected leaders will undergo an intensive training on their expected roles.
They will also train on the creation of unions and federated structures for advocacy, lobbying, and representation on the sub-county, county, and national level of the NTSA structure.
Every transport society is to consider the possibility of either delinking or strengthening the existing savings and credit as an activity within the society to include all players.
