This is under Sonko's watch, doesn't surprise me. Playing as was expected!!! You can only be promoted to your level of competency beyond that it will be there for all & sundry to see!!!

Last week, Finance Executive Vesca Kangogo told a committee of the Assembly that City Hall has incurred huge revenue losses due to frequent failure of the online system.

Kangogo said City Hall has automated more than 90 per cent of its 136 revenue streams, pushing its daily collections to between Sh80 and Sh100 million, up from between Sh7 million and Sh10 million before the automation.

JamboPay chief executive Danson Muchemi, however, denied the claims, and instead blamed frequent internet disruptions at City Hall and weak enforcement by the county for the continued dismal revenue performance.

Muchemi said JamboPay has integrated its systems with those of City Hall and that any time the internet connection to the county headquarters is disconnected, its operations are also grounded.

“They are not paying for Internet on time. We experience issues in areas such as the instant generation of receipts. We get them from their internal systems so if there is no internet, there is nothing much we can do,” he said.

The system, for instance, shows where vehicles are parked in the more than 12,000 parking slots in the city, whether they have been paid for or not and also shows vehicle registration numbers.

“This information is real time, but we still go ahead and download the information and send it to them via email for action,” Muchemi said.

Between February 1 and 15, only 579 out of 14,208 vehicles whose parking fees were not paid, were clamped. Parking attendants who collude with motorists have been blamed for the losses.

The county collected Sh777.3 million in the first 15 days of February with single business permits generating Sh166.7 million, land rates Sh189.2 million and seasonal parking netting Sh81.6 million.

In January, JamboPay collected Sh1.6 billion for the county. City Hall has automated more than 90 per cent of its 136 revenue streams, pushing its daily collections to between Sh80 and Sh100 million, up from between Sh7 million and Sh10 million before the automation.

This, Kengogo says, is still below the county’s potential. The county aims to collect Sh16 billion by June. It had collected Sh6 billion as at mid- February.

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City Hall’s plan to set up a Sh28 billion power plant at the Dandora dumpsite could soon be revived after the county finally acquired a title for the land.

A German investor — Sustainable Environment Management UG — withdrew from the project in 2016 for lack of a title for the 30-acre wasteyard.

This was revealed by Auditor General Edward Ouko in his 2014-15 audit report. Ouko said the investor had asked the county to provide the title before it invests in the project.

The firm was to eliminate the need to relocate the dumpsite by investing in renewable energy using the waste as the raw material to produce as much as 160MW of power daily.

The waste is used to generate methane gas in a renewable cycle.