{UAH} COOPERATIVE COOPERATION: A lesson from Kenya
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COOPERATIVE COOPERATION: A lesson from Kenya
I have spend most of my time reading and discussing political events within Uganda and Africa since 2011, the famous Walk to Work, the rise of Kenyatta son to the highest office in the land of Kenya, the downfall of autocratic regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Col. Muarma Gadhafi of Egypt and Libya respectively.
Through my writings, I have stung leader and local politicians thinking that they could revise their policies and make them more appropriate to the Ugandan local communities.
I have joined the forces of change in unison to ensure that the days of my youth are not wasted to being exploited and abused by individual interests of our leaders.
I have done all that, now its time to 'sting' the the cooperative movement with the venoms of my writings, whites have a saying that 'if you want to hide wealth from an African, put into a book. Well I don't subscribe to that, my advises in what I write are for you to read.
The cooperative movement is rooted back in the generation of Kangave Musazi who was arrested several times all in the name of fighting to empower cooperatives for Uganda's cooperative movement and economic independence of Ugandan locals.
One of the principals of cooperatives is 'Unity', togetherness and working as a team to achieve our goals, but how many times have the cooperators voiced out in unison to let the government and the executive in particular know what is needed to be done to ensure that our people break the bottlenecks to earn a quality living?
Our economy is in a sorry state although the Central Bank isn't open about it, our only hope is in the cooperative movement, we can make it, our neighbour Kenya did it.
In Kenya, the cooperative movement controls 45 per cent of Kenya GDP.
Kenya boasts about 15,000 registered cooperatives with 12 million members and a further 1.5 million people engaged in small scale and informal enterprise funded by cooperatives.
The vibrant and dynamic cooperative movement in Kenya and the strongest in Africa employs more than 30,000 people, Savings & Credit Societies have mobilised savings of more than Kshs 230 billion, it commands 67 and 62 per cent of total assets and deposits/savings respectively.
They have a Cooperative Bank (Uganda's was Liquidated) and a Cooperative Insurance Company, and own the Cooperative University of Kenya.
Kenyan government has been pivotal to ensure that the Cooperative Movement succeeds, I watched President Kenyatta explaining how Kenya has been able to fund its budget 100%, he sighted one important point, putting talents with abilities in their rightful positions, meaning they employ the right people into the Cooperative Alliance of Kenya.
What happens in Uganda is total mess, the president doesn't trust the people in the offices, the other time we saw him moving door to door giving sucks of money to cooperatives even to those which do not exist (Mulago case).
Kenya Cooperatives don't rely on government alone, Kenya as a case study won't help us if there is no cooperation within Cooperatives, we have cooperatives in same localities who don't even know each other, how do you expect such a movement to successfully fight for their interests?
Uganda Cooperatives need to cooperate to revive the movement.
By
Nkonge Charles Tesigulwa
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-- I have spend most of my time reading and discussing political events within Uganda and Africa since 2011, the famous Walk to Work, the rise of Kenyatta son to the highest office in the land of Kenya, the downfall of autocratic regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Col. Muarma Gadhafi of Egypt and Libya respectively.
Through my writings, I have stung leader and local politicians thinking that they could revise their policies and make them more appropriate to the Ugandan local communities.
I have joined the forces of change in unison to ensure that the days of my youth are not wasted to being exploited and abused by individual interests of our leaders.
I have done all that, now its time to 'sting' the the cooperative movement with the venoms of my writings, whites have a saying that 'if you want to hide wealth from an African, put into a book. Well I don't subscribe to that, my advises in what I write are for you to read.
The cooperative movement is rooted back in the generation of Kangave Musazi who was arrested several times all in the name of fighting to empower cooperatives for Uganda's cooperative movement and economic independence of Ugandan locals.
One of the principals of cooperatives is 'Unity', togetherness and working as a team to achieve our goals, but how many times have the cooperators voiced out in unison to let the government and the executive in particular know what is needed to be done to ensure that our people break the bottlenecks to earn a quality living?
Our economy is in a sorry state although the Central Bank isn't open about it, our only hope is in the cooperative movement, we can make it, our neighbour Kenya did it.
In Kenya, the cooperative movement controls 45 per cent of Kenya GDP.
Kenya boasts about 15,000 registered cooperatives with 12 million members and a further 1.5 million people engaged in small scale and informal enterprise funded by cooperatives.
The vibrant and dynamic cooperative movement in Kenya and the strongest in Africa employs more than 30,000 people, Savings & Credit Societies have mobilised savings of more than Kshs 230 billion, it commands 67 and 62 per cent of total assets and deposits/savings respectively.
They have a Cooperative Bank (Uganda's was Liquidated) and a Cooperative Insurance Company, and own the Cooperative University of Kenya.
Kenyan government has been pivotal to ensure that the Cooperative Movement succeeds, I watched President Kenyatta explaining how Kenya has been able to fund its budget 100%, he sighted one important point, putting talents with abilities in their rightful positions, meaning they employ the right people into the Cooperative Alliance of Kenya.
What happens in Uganda is total mess, the president doesn't trust the people in the offices, the other time we saw him moving door to door giving sucks of money to cooperatives even to those which do not exist (Mulago case).
Kenya Cooperatives don't rely on government alone, Kenya as a case study won't help us if there is no cooperation within Cooperatives, we have cooperatives in same localities who don't even know each other, how do you expect such a movement to successfully fight for their interests?
Uganda Cooperatives need to cooperate to revive the movement.
By
Nkonge Charles Tesigulwa
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