Three months after President William Ruto’s administration directed all government agencies to start charging services using one pay bill, 17 CEOs of government parastatals have been summoned to explain their failure to comply with a presidential directive on payments of services through eCitizen.
According to reports, the 17 were summoned on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, for failing to respect the president’s order and start using the government’s pay bill number of citizen services.
Among the CEOs summoned are from KRA, Kenya Power, KNEC, NHIF, HELB, Hustler Fund, KNH and NCPB among other entities.
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This came after President William Ruto ordered the closure of all existing non-designated government Paybill Numbers and a transition to pave way for a single payment platform in August this year.
In a statement issued by Secretary to the Cabinet Mercy Wanjau, the President directed all ministries to terminate all remaining non-designated payment platforms and migrate to the newly designated Paybill Number, 222222 by Tuesday, August 8, 2023, in line with his administration’s plan to digitize government services.
He said the plan would ensure e-Citizen remains the Digital Payments Platform while 222222 becomes the sole Paybill payment platform.
According to the President, the migration set the stage for the onboarding of all government services onto the e-Citizen online platform by the end of September 2023.
By Tv47