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Fisher of souls and father of Kenya’s Sacco movement

Fr Joakim Getonga 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]

If you conduct an online search of 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. 

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