• The auditor in her review of NTSA books for the year ending June 2020 cited the lack of contract between the transport regulator, the taxman and the digital platform.
• KRA collected Sh415 million on behalf of NTSA whereas collections from E-Citizen were to the tune of Sh1.08 billion in the referenced fiscal year.
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has raised concerns that the KRA and E-Citizen have been collecting revenue on behalf of the NTSA without legal backing.
The auditor, in her review of the National Transport and Safety Authority books of account for the year ending June 2020, cited the lack of contract between the transport regulator, the taxman and the digital platform where Kenyans access government services.
“Although the NTSA received revenue collected by third parties – E-Citizen and KRA, contracts or service agreements signed between the service providers and the authority were not provided for audit review,” Gathungu said.
She argued that without the said documents, the accuracy, completeness and the validity of the receipts of the financial year under review were in doubt.
“The validity of the Sh1.5 billion receipts relating to revenue from rendering of services for the year ended June 2020 could not be ascertained,” the auditor said.
E-Citizen hosts government services including Immigration, Business Registration, Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Registration Department, Mining ministry and Lands ministry.
The Office of Registrar of Political Parties was the latest to be listed on E-Citizen with others being the Higher Education Loans Board, Kenya Revenue Authority, National Construction Authority, NEMA, Kenya Film Commission and Kenya National Qualifications Authority.
Three counties namely Mombasa, Nyeri and Kisumu are among devolved units that have also listed their services through the platform.
KRA collected Sh415 million on behalf of NTSA whereas collections from E-Citizen were to the tune of Sh1.08 billion in the referenced fiscal year.
Of the collections, NTSA earned over Sh200 million from road service licenses, Sh456 million from sale of vehicle number plates and Sh140 million from driver test bookings.
Motor vehicle inspections netted the transport regulator Sh397 million while Sh70 million was raised from foreign motor travel permits.
The authority further made over Sh95 million from sale of Public Service Vehicles badges – for drivers and conductors – and Sh138 million from e-Stickers.
Other revenues were to the tune of Sh2.3 million whereas Sh31 million was realised in receipts from a European Union project.
NTSA also received Sh821 million as development and recurrent grants from the Interior department in a year when Covid-19 hit its revenues by 18 per cent.
During the year under review, the authority’s operations cost Sh2.3 billion, absorbing 97 per cent of government allocations.
Director General George Njao reported that the agency registered 295,075 motor vehicles, transferred 321,337 and issued 218,264 new generation smart driving licenses.
(Edited by Bilha Makokha)
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