Ruto's Project Makes Record Ksh900 Million In One Day
Out of this, close to a third of the amount was generated from transactions in US dollars totalling $1,446,495 (Ksh223,714,916) while Ksh680.4 million was collected in the local currency.
Marvin Chege 
The government has announced that it has made more than Ksh900 million through revenues drawn from the eCitizen platform in a single day, a new record months after President William Ruto consolidated all government services to one paybill number.
In a statement on Thursday, December 21, Immigration and Citizen Services Principal Secretary (PS) Julius Bitok revealed that the government collected Ksh903.6 million through eCitizen on Wednesday, December 20 alone.
Out of this, close to a third of the amount was generated from transactions in US dollars totalling $1,446,495 (Ksh223,714,916) while Ksh680.4 million was collected in the local currency.
“The figure marks a steady rise in monies collected through the platform following President William Ruto's directive to all state agencies to onboard all their services on the eCitizen platform by the end of this year,” read the statement in part.
Immigration and Citizen Services PS Julius Bitok speaking as he displays a copy of a booklet on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Digital ID to the media at the Nairobi Serena Hotel. Looking on is Amnesty International Kenya Executive Director Irungu Houghton. /JULIUS BITOK
The Head of State in June had directed that all other paybills be shut down and payments for government services be channelled through a consolidated paybill, 222222
The move aimed to inject better management and transparency in revenue collection and to stem leakages from numerous collection points.
Since the Presidential directive took effect, over 14,000 government services are currently accessible and payable on eCitizen, and daily revenue collection has risen to an average of Ksh300 million per day in November.
"Data from Treasury reveals in November, Ksh4.664 billion was collected up from Ksh1.44 billion in June before the presidential directive. The amounts for July, August and September were Ksh2.362 billion, Ksh3.636 billion and Ksh4,233 billion respectively," added the statement.
"The government is banking on an average of 5,000 new users who sign up to eCitizen daily in addition to the 11 million eCitizen existing users alongside the onboarding of more services to further increase its daily revenue collection."
The Immigration PS further mentioned that the government was relying on an average of 5,000 new users who sign up to eCitizen daily in addition to the 11 million eCitizen existing users alongside the onboarding of more services to further increase its daily revenue collection.
So far, the Affordable Housing Program spearheaded by President Ruto is the latest government service to heed the Executive's demands of having all government services digitized by December 31, 2023.
On Sunday, December 10, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) announced that all members of the public and employers will make their payments for services through the unified paybill number with immediate effect.
On Monday, August 7, the government acted on President Ruto's directive on Friday, June 30 and shut down the over 1,400 pay bills in a move geared at consolidating all payments to one channel.
"I am going to be making an announcement here that in the next 90 days, all other pay bills must be shut down because we have a problem with some of the PayBills that we cannot account for. We have close to over 1,000 PayBills some of which we don't have sight of. They must now be closed," he announced at the time.
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