Priest and father of cooperative movement

Fr Joakim Gitonga at his office in Murang'a Town, on May 27,2019. Gitonga started the first registered Sacco in Kenya,1964, Mariira Parish Co-operative Savings and Credit Society. He was given dispensation from priestly obligations and allowed to marry by Pope John Paul 11, in 1975. [Kibata Kihu/Standard]

?When you search the name Joachim Getonga on Google, the search engine will give you 102 results. When you put the title Fr before the name, Google will give you 7,640 results. 

A priest (now retired), author and chairman of the local Kikuyu Council of Elders, Fr Getonga is a household name in Murang'a County. He is a man of many firsts, a celebrated Kenyan whose biggest achievement is not captured by internet search engines.