Unhappy with the state of many cooperatives, Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul has said that corruption in such societies will be targeted as part of the ongoing efforts to make them accountable and viable.
Gopaul was speaking on Monday at the opening of a three-day workshop aimed at providing capacity building training towards improving the functioning of cooperatives, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
The ministry has been seeking to address unprofessional conduct and mismanagement in some of the local co-operatives, with the aim of getting them to work more effectively for members, Gopaul said, noting some of the violations it has discovered within the societies over the past year. The ministry has found some reports on land and housing cooperatives very disturbing, such as illegal sale of house lots and state property,
