Nairobi Governor, Mike Sonko, announced a new system of revenue collection within the county that is set to take effect on Monday.
Motorists, traders and businesses are now mandated to remit their taxes through an internally managed system that was set up to replace the JamboPay system.
"The county has officially parted ways with Webtribe Limited, the company that was contracted to collect revenue on behalf of the county back in April 2014," Sonko's Communication Director, Jacob Elkana divulged.
Webtribe was the company that had provided the JamboPay platform from which residents could make their various payments to the county through EjijiPay.
However, their contract expired on April 7, 2019, with the county opting not to renew, citing lack of control.
Nairobi county's Finance Executive, Charles Kerich, asserted that the government was ready to collect revenue on its own, adding that failure to meet revenue collection targets was the key reason behind the move.
"Our aim is to achieve our annual targets and we are working on ways in which we can make it possible internally," Kerich affirmed.
The finance executive further revealed that the county had negotiated for a 30-day extension that could be pushed to 90 in order to ensure a seamless transition, with the final handover of all data, assets and reports expected to be done on Monday.
"We expect for instance, that all money that has been deposited by Nairobi residents in JamboPay's wallet should be reimbursed to the owners," he reiterated.
Statements from the county communications director claimed that during the last financial year, the county collected Ksh10 billion against a target of Ksh17 billion. Further adding that by the end of May this year, the county had hit the Ksh10 billion mark against a target of Ksh15 billion.
Governor Sonko thus declared that Nairobi would rely on its own data centre for all the collections.
