‘Cashless’ parking system takes effect in Nairobi
Nairobi motorists residents will have to pay for parking themselves after City Hall streamlined its automated revenue collection to seal leakages.
This after the county government stopped use of cash in any transactions to persons who require services at the county.
At the cash office, the e-payment platform Ejiji pay has taken over and all service including parking and licence fees will now be paid through the automated systems.
While the system had already been automated, motorists had the option of giving the attendants cash to either load money onto their Ejiji accounts or pay directly. Not anymore.
ATTENDANTS
“The parking attendants have a wallet which is loaded with cash they would earlier pay for the motorists then it is deducted from their account, come evening they would balance the cash and load it to the system. Now motorists will have to do it themselves as we are now going paperless,” said head of parking City Hall Fredrick Ndunyu.
Mr Ndunyu added that it is not only parking but licences, markets, fire, land rates and all the other revenue collection streams.
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko claimed that since the move, City Hall has doubled its daily revenue to Sh38.2 million as of Monday alone.
REVENUE STREAMS
“This is only from the 14 revenue streams that have been digitized, out of over 136 revenue streams,” said Mr Sonko.
The governor however did not provide the previous collections.
According to the governor, on Monday, more than 2,061 vehicles that parked within the city did not pay parking fees.
On Tuesday, most motorists were astonished when the attendants refused to take cash but directed them to use the online platform.
