Kakamega boda boda get financial training as Mogo rolls out sessions

_{By Hilda Atika.}

Mogo Microfinance has embarked on a financial training programme for boda boda operators across Western Kenya in a bid to enlighten operators.

Led by Sheila Wangari Nuni, Community and Events Manager at Mogo, the boda boda operators were told to embrace loan borrowing, which would improve their lives and help them develop in the future.

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The communication manager was speaking during a boda boda sensitisation forum in Kakamega Town, adding that the initiative shows transparency in their work and is able to uplift customers through savings and improved wellbeing.

“We have started the programme, and as we continue, we will increase and reach every Mogo client,” Nuni stated.

Apart from loan borrowing, the microfinance also delivers logbooks to boda boda and tuk-tuk operators. She disclosed that Mogo has successful stories to tell, but beneficiaries did not attend the event.

County boda boda chairperson Peter Ochango was delighted to take part in the sensitisation forum on motorbike loan borrowing organised by Mogo Company.

He underscored the significance of the training, which will enable him to pass the message to others on taking motorbikes on credit with a repayment period of one and a half years and maintenance.

During the session, they learnt why motorbikes were taken off and could not know the main reason and where to claim.

Patrick Wesonga, a loan borrower at Mogo Finance in the year 2020, revealed that he borrowed because he did not have cash and, in his mindset, he worked hard to repay the loan.

“I was much interested in owning a motorbike rather than being employed by someone. I repaid the motorbike on time and can feel the joy of owning it, can be able to move here and there, making journeys,” Wesonga highlighted.

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