Kisumu’s Mlimani Boda Boda riders purchase vehicle for transport business
By Dickson Odhiambo
February 20, 2020
Kisumu’s Mlimani Boda
Boda riders purchase vehicle for transport business
Boda Boda Operator within Market Mlimani ward in Kisumu City
have purchased a new motor vehicle for transport business.
This becomes the first boda boda riders under a Sacco that
has bought a vehicle for transport business purpose.
Addressing the Sacco members during the launch of the
vehicle today in Kisumu, Mlimani Boda Boda Sacco riders Sacco Limited Chairman
Jackson Juma Adero said they have done so in order to initiate development
project that will be of great benefit to the Sacco members.
Adero says they have managed to purchase the vehicle through
a bank loan which they will repay as members.
He says they have also formed a company known as Market Ward
Riders Company Limited which will spearhead the operations of the sacoo.
“It has not been an easy thing for us but this is the way to
go forward after a long search for unity, peaceful coexistence and effective
dialogue that promote peace and enhanced development,” Adero says.
Acting Kisumu County Executive Committee member in charge of
Transport Dickson Obungu has thanked the Sacco for a job well done, adding that
this is a way of moving forward in terms of development.
He says the County Government is ready to offer support to the
boda boda riders who are in organized sacco.
He says after duly filling some forms, the county Government
will give shs 250,000 to the Boda Boda Sacco so as to help them in terms of
developed.
Market/Mlimani ward Representative Seth Ochieng Kanga has
lauded the move terming it a major milestone in the Boda Boda industry in
Kisumu County.
Chief Officer in charge of Women, Youth, Women, Gender and
People with Disability Affairs Haggai Kadiri says both the County Government of
Kisumu and Boda Boda Riders will work together.
He says the Boda Boda business is an important economic arm within
the county and should be supported.
“We can’t succeed without boda Boda industry within Kisumu
County hence the need to support it because one can’t succeed without the boda
boda industry,’ Kadiri says.
The Mlimani Boda Boda Riders Sacco officially started
operations in March 2019 with a total of only 40 members.
Today, the Sacco has, managed to register up to 400 members
and through their weekly saving of sh 300 per member it has managed to raise a
capital of shs 800,000.
The Sacco has also managed to train about 100 of its riders
who have been taken to driving schools and equipped with skills and license to
offer quality and safe transport services.
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Good effort guys
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