Revenue –The current Nairobi Pay platform, according to Governor Johnson Sakaja, was developed by the national government entities and not private developers.
Speaking on Citizen Tv on Tuesday April 16 night, Governor Sakaja, while trying to demystify the misleading myth, noted that he used the national government IT technicians in coming up with tax payment systems which he said was working efficiently.
Mr. Sakaja dismissed reports that external vendors developed the Nairobi Pay system without a valid contract with the county government.
In response to audit queries raised by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, the county boss insisted that the platform is a robust system devolved before he came into office.
He further told viewers that he had rejected attempts by various vendors who wanted the county to migrate to another questionable revenue system immediately after he took over office.
He elaborated that the Nairobi Pay was a system set up during the period when the national government had transferred functions, the NMS running the county then.
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta together with the Joint National Mapping (JNAM) developed started to develop the system for revenue collection.
