Sakaja clears allegations of leaving the Nairobi pay system under private entities

Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja has finally cleared the air over allegations that the Nairobi County’s revenue collection system, Nairobi Pay, was developed by a private firm.

Speaking in an interview with one of mainstream media outlet in the country, sakaja clarified that government entities are responsible for the city’s revenue collection system and it was developed before he got into office.

"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 a system for revenue collection. We looked at the system, it looked robust. At the time, the responsibility to collect revenue had been transferred to KRA. When we transferred it, KRA did not have a system, so as a national government, we developed the system. There is no company called Nairobi Pay," Sakaja said.

Governor Sakaja was responding to audit queries raised by the auditor general Nancy Gathungu, explaining that the Nairobi Pay was developed at the time when the county government roles were transferred to the national government and the city revenue collection was left under the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).