NAIROBI, Kenya, May 10 – The Nairobi County Government has recorded Sh1.2 billion in Own Sources Revenue (OSR) collections by April 2024.
This was a significant increase from 925 million lice in the same period last year.
Governor Johnson Sakaja said: “Thanks to the measures we have introduced, we are on track to receive the highest revenue this fiscal year.”
“The money raised will be used for the development and improvement of the city. Our immediate focus in the coming months will be to prioritize improving our service delivery and train revenue collection as a priority. Our OSR is steadily increasing “We expect continued growth in the coming months,” he said.
In January 2024, Governor Sakaja Johnson introduced the Uniform Business Permit (UBP) to ensure a strict cash-free policy in revenue collection and promote efficiency and compliance.
The increase in revenue collection highlights the county's commitment to efficient revenue management.
“A comparison of the performance of independent sources in the Nairobi City and County Government shows a positive trend with revenue collections in April 2024 exceeding the previous year’s figures,” said John Ntoiti, Director-General of the Department of Revenue. .
“We now have staff fully dedicated to ensuring compliance and the effectiveness of revenue mobilization efforts at the district and district levels. This is the highest amount raised since the 2017/2018 financial year.”
More people are now making payments through Co-op Bank's various branches and online platform *647#, which clearly shows the effectiveness of revenue mobilization efforts at the district and district level.
The Revenue Management team provides revenue figures to 2013 across a variety of revenue sources, including land costs, parking fees, planning and inspection, signage and advertising, house rents, pre-inspections, food handling certificates, markets and other sources of revenue. We have considered the comparison.
Discussions focused on implementing measures to further strengthen revenue collection.
In addition, the county issued notices to land value delinquent owners, urging them to pay before taking action.
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