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DT-saccos shrug off Covid to post 12 per cent growth

Sasra chief executive Peter Njuguna. FILE PHOTO | NMG

What you need to know:

  • Gross loans rose 12.1 percent to stand at Sh474.7 billion as at December 2020 compared to Sh419.6 billion achieved a year earlier.

Deposit-taking (DT-saccos) shrugged off the adverse economic ills brought by Covid-19 menace to post an average of 12 per cent growth on their assets, loans and deposits.

Addressing a saccos delegates congress in Mombasa, Saccos Regulatory Authority (Sasra) chief executive John Mwaka said deposits of the 176 saccos hit Sh431.1 billion being a 13.3 percent growth from Sh380.4 billion registered in 2019.