There were also debts that the former workers’ union owed cooperatives, yet apparently the directorate had long gone bankrupt, while those who embezzled the funds have fled the country claiming that they have gone for treatment abroad.

“We are currently working on the dossier, when we have finalized it we shall ask them to repay the money and if they refuse, we shall seek justice,” Martin Kampanyana, the president of the restructuring commission said.

As for those who have fled the country, Kampanyana explained that there are many ways of extraditing them. “The world is becoming small and if need be we can use the services of Interpol,” he said.

He revealed that there is a lot of theft still going on and that the commission is committed weed out the culprits from the cooperatives. “We want to halt the mismanagement and embezzlement that characterized the worker’s federation, and become a better organization that profits its members,” Martin Kampanyana said.

During the general assembly, the prospect of a new federation was discussed and members agreed it should consist of workers’ cooperatives’ members, unlike in the past when there were people in the directorate who did not belong to any of the cooperatives.