Dar es Salaam, Nov. 24 -- THE government on Mondayin Mwanza returned assets worth over 61bn/- to Nyanza Cooperative Union (NCU-1984 Ltd) that were illegally acquired by some of the Union's dishonest staff some years back.

Speaking at an occasion to handover the property, the Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary, Mr Gerald Kusaya (pictured) warned cooperative officers, who engage in illegal possession of their property that the government will not hesitate to punish them.

Elaborating, he noted that any cooperative union's asset(s) acquired illegally and owned by an individual(s) or institutions will be returned to the actual owner.

Naming the assets as pieces of land, buildings and some 48 different machineries handed over, Mr Ku...