Immigration Principal Secretary Julius Bitok says the government has onboarded 18,000 services to its online portal eCitizen cashing in Ksh400 billion.
In a statement to newsrooms on Tuesday, November 19, the PS said there was a significant increase in cash collection as a result of the government's decision to transition majority of its services to the digital platform.
According to Bitok, this development makes Kenya the first country in the world to have such a number of services online.
“From 354 services on e-Citizen, we are now doing 18,000 services digitally, the result is that the government collects Ksh 300 billion from e-Citizen alone and another Ksh 100 billion on other immigration functions, making it one of the best performers in revenue collection,” he said.
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Bitok mentioned that the government has identified a total of 20,721 services for integration into the eCitizen platform.
Of these, 17,692 services have been successfully onboarded, which accounts for 85 percent of the identified services.
“Further, 547 MDAs were identified for onboarding out of which 288 were successfully onboarded representing 52 percent of identified Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)," he added.
Bitok stated that the State Department is now generating approximately Ksh900 million to Ksh 1 billion each day from their services, a significant increase from the mere Ksh60 million daily when there were fewer than 400 services available.
In June this year, the government announced plans to digitize at least 80 percent of public services and make them available on eCitizen.
“The digital transformation agenda must demonstrate impact in various aspects of our economy, and we have seen the ripple effects in our judiciary, where access to justice is at the click of a button, and in our hospitals, where collaboration amongst hospitals is leading to the availability of quality healthcare, even in remote areas of the country,” the then ICT CS Eliud Owalo said.
