President William Ruto while speaking during the launch of the Public Service Commission Values and Principles Compliance report for 2021-2022 on Friday, March 31, announced that at least 4,200 government services have been digitized.
The head of state stated that the collection of the digitization exercise is scheduled for June.
According to President Ruto, digitizing government services will allow Kenyans to access services anywhere and anytime they want without so many unnecessary processes, as is the case presently.
“The recommendation to migrate public services to online platforms to enhance compliance with values and principles of governance is in perfect synchrony with our plan to digitize government services. President Ruto said.
“So far, at least 4,200 government services have been digitized. We envisage completion of this exercise by June to allow Kenyans to access services without unnecessary bureaucracy,” he added.
Moreover, this update comes hardly a month after he announced that 2,800 government services had been digitized.
Likewise, the state last year announced that all payments for government services shall be made through the E-citizen portal.
Njuguna Ndung’u who is the Treasury Cabinet Secretary gazetted the portal to be the official government digital payment platform.
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The CS also announced that more transactions were being moved to the online payment portal, as the government unveils a new universal pay bill number.
Severalf government services have been bundled under the e-citizen, earning hundreds of thousands of transactions monthly.
In addition, the online portal creates an invoice for different services after which a user is required to pay the amount using mobile money platforms through the government’s pay bill number.
The system will then reflect the transaction once payment is made and generate a receipt that can be printed by the user.