Official urges quarry miners to form cooperative society

Metrin Nafula carries stones from a quarry on June 25 last year. She takes them to masons who shape them for sale at Kware ya Kinuthia at Kiganjo, Kieni East in Nyeri County. [Mose Sammy, Standard]

Quarry workers have been asked to former a savings and credit cooperative societies to enable them to benefit from efforts to institutionalise the sub-sector.

The Government has anchored quarrying in the law to regularise the sub-sector and protect the miners.