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Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Wycliffe Oparanya. [File, Standard]

Cooperative societies across the country are set to undergo inspection and have their officials trained on ethics as the government moves in to sanitise the sector, which it says is marred with weak governance structures.

The exercise is one of the key performance indicators for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) this financial year as agreed with the Office of the President.

The training will also rope in county officials across the 47 devolved units and the relevant agencies, among them the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) where the relevant Acts will be disseminated.

Deputy Chief of Staff, Performance and Delivery Management in the Office of the President Eliud Owalo, cited weak governance as a perennial problem in the cooperative sector.

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