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The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA ) is still in charge of the revenue collection at Nairobi City County.
This was revealed on Monday, March 6, 2023, during the meeting between the ICT committee and the Nairobi ICT and Finance and economic sectors.
Finance County Executive Committee Member Charles Kerich stated to the committee that after the end of tenure for NMS, the revenue system has never been handed back to the county and they are still in the transfer process.
Kerich said that it is only a few individuals in the finance sector and ICT have Viewership rights and they follow to see the revenue being collected in the day.
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“The system is yet to be transferred to the County. We were only given the viewership rights and we are able to check the revenue being collected,” Kerich stated.
The CECM added that they currently do not know the location of the system servers.
“We do not know the physical location though and as it has been stated, the process of transfer is yet to begin,” he added.
Speaking to the media after the session Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai said that they discovered no one knows the physical local of the Nairobi Revenue System and that it’s only a few individuals at the executive have viewership rights.
“It’s very dangerous that up to now no one knows the physical location of the NRS system and only a few individuals at the county have viewership rights. No one knows the bank accounts are connected to it,” Alai stated.
“Nobody knows who has the user or the admin rights. That is a very dangerous way to operate a government system,” he added.
It was revealed that for 50 % of the days, the System is always down hence it cannot be accurate on the amount that the County collects and they were unable to meet the targets of December-March.
The National Payment System Act states that for the personalization to be in place, they need to be licensed by the Central bank of Kenya and e in partnership with at least ten banks.
This is contrary to the happenings at the Nairobi Revenue Services which has raised an alarm of someone looting the revenue of the County.
The ICT committee wants the System handed back to the county so that they can take control and check what they are collecting and why they have failed to meet their targets.
“This could be a very big scandal coming if it does not care off quickly at the moment,” Alai stated.
The NRS was for the county during the tenure of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services and was being used to collect revenue for the County.
The system was being handled by the KRA after the then CEC made a gazette notice painting them as the revenue collectors of the county.