Wycliffe Oparanya CS for Cooperatives and MSMEs during inauguration of the new KUSCCO board on May 12, 2025. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] “To manage what is common with virtue is to honour justice; to corrupt it for personal gain is to betray both reason and community”- Inspired by stoic principles. Now, leading or managing shared affairs honestly supports justice, while exploiting them for selfish reason is both irrational and harmful to society. This is the opposite of what happens in the cooperative movement in Kenya. Kenya’s cooperative movement, once hailed as a beacon of financial inclusion and economic empowerment, is teetering under the weight of mismanagement and…