Auditor
General office will be conducting a performance audit in 52 coffee cooperative societies in 18 counties.
Also the team will be doing the same in 15
farmers cooperative unions in coffee belts in the exercise projected to take 84
days.
Agriculture
CS Peter Munya in April said World Bank will facilitate revitalization programme in eight counties at Sh1.5 billion.
Mr Munya in a recent function
Cooperative’s
Principal Secretary Mr Ali Noor Ismail called on Cooperative CEC at the in the
counties to assist in the undertaking of the audit.
The
focus of the team is to establish status of the overall performance of the
coffee sub-sector in the country, concentrating on efficiency, the economic
viability of cooperative societies among others.
“The
taskforce proposed reforms in the sector to focus on an audit of the
cooperative societies and debt waivers, as intervention measure to the sub
sector to improve coffee production presently at 40,000 metric tonnes down from
129,926 metric tonnes 1987/88,” said the PS.
Acting
Cooperative Commissioner Mr Geoffrey Njang’ombe said they have constituted five
teams to collect vital information in
the coffee value chain.
The
audit exercise commenced on September 7 and projected to end on December 11 and
will visit counties of Meru, Tharaka Nithi, Embu, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Murang’a,
Kiambu, Trans Nzoia, Machakos,
Others
are Nandi, Bungoma, Kericho, Kisii, Nakuru, Baringo, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Bomet
and Kitui.
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