The Government has summoned the management of 17 state-run agencies next week to explain their failure to comply with a presidential directive on payments of services through e Citizen.
The Secretary to the Cabinet Mercy Wanjau who chairs the e-Citizen Implementation Committee and is the convener of Tuesday’s meeting said principal secretaries for State Departments under which the agencies fall, chief executive officers and Board chairpersons will be in attendance.
Wanjau who was addressing officials from various state agencies in Syokimau, Machakos County, said the summons followed a comply-or-explain letter that she had issued on August 4, this year.
“Following conversations that have happened, these state corporations have been invited for a meeting on Tuesday at 9 am and this meeting is to be attended by the CEO, the Chair of the board and the PS who is the accounting officer,” she said.
She further stated that although the agencies had initially been granted a temporary exemption from closing their PayBill numbers and channeling all payments to 222222 on account of their unique services, they were still bound by the December 31 deadline.
“The exemption was on the premise that indeed you need time but you still must remain on the pathway for digitisation without fracturing your services,” said Wanjau.
Among the summoned agencies are Kenya Revenue Authority, Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Kenya National Examination Council, National Hospital Insurance Fund, Higher Education Loans Board, the Hustler Fund and the Agricultural Finance Corporation