Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is set to increase parking fees in the city just six months after he reduced the rates from Ksh 300 to Ksh 200.
He had cited that the main reason for reducing the fee in January was because it was among the pledges he had penned in his manifesto.
In a complete turnaround, Finance CEC Charles Kerich on Monday presented the county's budget estimates for the financial year 2019/20 at the County Assembly where he announced that parking fees would be reviewed upwards.
Kerich went further to state that the county will begin taxing digital entrepreneurs who conduct their businesses through various social media platforms from July 1.
Selling of commodities via platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has become a trend among the youth in Nairobi as well as the rest of the country.
Home deliveries have also become popular with customers preferring to have the goods delivered wherever they choose.
These new measures are aimed at helping the nation's capital city achieve its internal revenue goal of Ksh17.32 billion in the 2019/2020 financial year.
In 2014, former Governor Evans Kidero increased parking fees from Ksh140 to Ksh300, much to the dismay of motorists.
City Hall had also announced its intention to increase the number of parking slots from 12,000 to 20,000 slots.
In December 2018, Sonko reclaimed 200 parking slots that had allegedly been in the hands of land grabbers and aimed to acquire more.
