Nairobi applies brakes on new parking system rollout

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Nairobi county has delayed the roll out of a brand new parking money assortment system, permitting the taxman extra time to proceed accumulating the cash.

The county authorities says the roll out of the brand new system, which was initially anticipated to start out Friday, will occur at a later date.

Metropolis Corridor says it’s nonetheless making last touches on its new construction that will see parking charges paid by motorists transferred to the devolved unit accounts after governor Johnson Sakaja mentioned he was parting methods with the Kenya Income Authority.

“As soon as we have now a system in place for income assortment, we will invite the media to interrogate and work together with the brand new system,” the county mentioned in a press release. It contradicted its director of parking who had mentioned early within the week that the brand new system had been finalised and motorists would begin utilizing it right this moment (Friday).

“It is unlucky the employees quoted on the story will not be authorised to talk to media on the mentioned issues with out authorisation from the governor.”

The brand new system will see motorists use a brand new shortcode in fee of the parking charges. At present, automobile homeowners dial *647# to pay for the parking charges, which is immediately linked to the KRA account.

Based on the county, among the the reason why they’re disengaging KRA is that the method was marred with quite a lot of secrecy and they didn’t know the way a lot was being collected.

Mr Sakaja mentioned the choice to strip KRA of the position was knowledgeable by the truth that the taxman was not assembly set targets beforehand attained by county officers after they had been accountable for that operate.

KRA took the position of accumulating tax on behalf of Nairobi County in March 2020 with officers allowed full and limitless entry to county income.

The brand new county boss is reverting many of the capabilities that had been beforehand been vested to different authorities to the devolved unit. As an illustration, the governor has introduced that he is not going to be renewing the tenure of the Nairobi Metropolitan when its tenure involves an finish in November.

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