Mr Patrick Khaemba, PS Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing, chats with Dr Charles Sotz, University Secretary. Looking on is Dr Ruth Kiraka, Director, ICE and Mr Patrick Shabaya, Academic Registrar

On Saturday 16th June 2007, 17 participants of the Strathmore-WOCCU African Management Institute (SWAMI) graduated in a colourful ceremony presided over by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing, Mr Patrick Khaemba. Mr Khaemba while congratulating the participants challenged them to implement the lessons they had learnt and also tell others about SWAMI. He noted that the SACCO movement in Kenya was the most vibrant in Africa and that its professional management was key to economic growth in the country and continent as a whole. He also pledged the government's continued support to the SWAMI programme especially with regard to publicizing the programme nationally.