Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has revealed how the city county is losing approximately Sh100 Million every day.
This is after it emerged that 14 out of 136 revenue streams are automated, with the rest being manual thus making it easy for officials to pocket money undetected.
County Records at City Hall indicate that about Sh14 Million is collected daily from the 14 streams while revenue from the other 122 cannot be verified as they still use manual receipts.
This means that over Sh100 Million is not accounted for, leading Sonko to demand to know how much was collected from a private firm contracted to operate the electronic payment platform for cash collections.
The Governor wrote to Web Tribe Ltd, the owners of JamboPay and Jijipay platform, demanding to know its directors and how much they have collected in two weeks.
âI am reliably informed that your company is contracted by the county and operates JamboPay of cash collection.
"To enable me familiarise myself with the system, I hereby direct you to provide my office by close of business today with the documents requested,â the letter dated August 23, reads in part.
Web Tribe CEO, Danson Muchemi wrote back the same day forwarding the documents while adding that the same information was on the real-time eJijiPAY electronic revenue collection dash board.
âWe wish to inform you that JamboPay only collects 14 revenue streams out of the 136 revenue streams specified in the county finance act,â Muchemi said.
The 14 streams include daily parking, seasonal parking, parking penalties, single business permit, house rents, land rates, liquor licence, market rents, miscellaneous, E-Construction, Fire, Health, advertisement and regularisation.
Earlier this week, Sonko made an impromptu tour of the cash office and found officers holding Sh7 Million being the collection for the previous day.
He promised to install CCTV cameras in the cash office to ensure transparency and timely banking of county cash.
âUnder my watch, City Hall has ceased to be anyoneâs cash cow. We shall streamline revenue collection and management,â he stated.