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OMP Domain Profile: Kenya Deposit-Taking SACCOs -- SASRA Supervision and Cooperative Governance Accountability
This document defines the OMP domain profile for deposit-taking
SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations) operating under
SASRA supervision in Kenya. It specifies the Intent Class
configuration, routing threshold ranges, Watchtower definitions, and
Audit Trace extensions required to satisfy board-level principal
accountability requirements under the SACCO Societies Act and the
Cooperatives Bill 2024.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers forensic audit of KUSCCO [KUSCCO-PWC-2025]
(Kenya Union of Savings and Credit Co-operatives), presented to the
Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and MSMEs in 2025, identified KES
13.3 billion in misappropriated funds. Every specific failure
identified -- forged auditor signatures, unauthorised executive
loans, fraudulent commission rate changes, unlicensed operations --
was undetectable because no evidence trail connected board
authorisation to operational outcome. This profile specifies the OMP
architecture that closes each of those specific failure modes.
The Cooperatives Bill 2024 [COOPERATIVES-BILL-2024] (Bill No. 7 of
2024), currently before the Kenyan Senate, introduces criminal
penalties for SACCO board directors who cannot produce governance
evidence. This profile REQUIRES implementation of the core OMP
protocol as defined in [I-D.veridom-omp]. The full specification is
also available at [ZENODO-OMP].