Machakos County has rolled out digitisation of all revenue streams in order to curtail revenue loss through corruption.
Machakos Finance CEC, Onesmus Kuyu, made the revelation while speaking during a Public Participation forum on County Fiscal Strategy paper Fsp 2025 in Masii towship, Mwala sub county.
Kuyu confirmed that the County has been losing money through manual collection adding that plans for the implementation of the digital money collection system are at an advanced stage. "Effective from next week no revenue will be collected outside the system unless we get rid of human interface in revenue matters otherwise the county will continue losing money," said Kuyu.
He regretted how the county have lost revenue on building plans approvals whose sector has been hijacked by brokers and cartels who are siphoning public funds.
