Trust, not technology, will determine whether Central Sacco will succeed

Technology may promise efficiency, but members judge institutions through transparency and accountability. 

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This week offered another reminder of how fragile the sacco sector's biggest ambitions around the National Payments System remain.

The Co-operatives Bill, which would repeal the outdated Co-operative Societies Act and allow saccos to connect directly to the National Payments System, is still stuck in a parliamentary Mediation Committee after the National Assembly rejected Senate amendments in April.

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