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How Ethiopia inspired the Sacco movement in Kenya

Mìnister for Co-Operative Development Maina Wanjigi breaking the ground for the construction of a three-storey banking building in Nairobi in 1987.

It was a season of unrest. Peasant farmers and labourers were rioting. Their hard-earned savings were drying faster than droplets of rain on their farmlands.

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