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Saccos play critical role in keeping our economy healthy, don’t kill them

Long before Mshwari and Mkopa – offshoots of telco giant Safaricom’s Mpesa - stormed into the market, most people in the informal sector or low cadre jobs banked their hopes for savings and credit in mattresses and in Savings and Credit Cooperatives (Saccos).

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