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Thin margins block Saccos from accessing State's mortgage billions

By Graham Kajilwa | 4h ago

Kuscco Housing in Kitengela. [File, Standard]

Razor-thin margins on the Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) backed loans have made Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (Saccos) uninterested in extending credit to their members.

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