Angry Ruto Lists 34 Companies Yet To Comply With eCitizen, Gives Them One Week To Join

A visibly agitated President William Ruto on Thursday, November 28 called out 34 government agencies yet to comply with his Presidential directive on onboarding the key services they offer on eCitizen.

The Head of State strongly accused the directors of key agencies within his government of undermining government efforts in the digitisation of government services. 

Speaking during the First Anniversary of the eCitizen Directorate, at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, the President revealed that “These entities are yet to comply with my directive that their services, payments and revenues must be on eCitizen platform so that Treasury can follow on revenues that are being collected by the government.”

As a result, Ruto directed the agencies to comply with the directive in one week or face consequences. ”They have one week to comply, otherwise, they can make use of the door,” Ruto warned.

The unhappy President listed all the 34 state agencies that were yet to comply with the directives, maintaining that they were responsible for the revenue loopholes.

He also uncovered a scheme whereby some state agencies had onboarded themselves on eCitizen, only to craft shady ways including retreating to old payment models, to escape being noticed by the Treasury.

”We still have government agencies that have come to the eCitizen platform, but retreat once in a while to go and use alternative means of payment including games with some banks,” he noted.

The President therefore ordered the directors of the notorious companies to adhere to a time frame of three days and submit to his office a report on the same.

”I want a record of the last three months of government agencies that are already on the eCitizen platform but have decided to use alternative means with grey spaces so that we can take action against the people who are undermining transparency,” Ruto added.

The companies include:

1. The National Cancer Institute of Kenya 

2. Kenya Hospital Authority Trust Fund

3. Kenya Nutritionist and Dieticians Institute

4. Health Records and Information Managers Board

5. National Syndemic Disease Control Council

6. Occupational Therapy Council of Kenya

7. Digital Health Authority

8. Kenya Biovax Institute Limited

9. Kenya National Public Health Institute

10. Kenya Health Human Resource Authority

11. Kenya Water Institute

12. Tanafi Water Works Development Agency

13. Water Sector Trust Fund

14. Kenya Engineering Technology Registration Board

15. Kenya Ports Authority 

16. IPOA

17. Private Security Regulatory Authority

18. Nairobi International Finance Centre

19. Kenya Reinsurance Corporation

20. Financial Reporting Centre 

21. Kenya Institute of Supplies Management 

22. Consolidated Bank of Kenya

23. Development Bank of Kenya

24. Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examinations Board (KASNEB)

25. Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK)

26. Institute of Certified Secretaries

27. Energy Petroleum and Regulatory Authority (EPRA)

28. Kenya Power Company Limited (KPLC)

29. Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy(REREC)

30. Geothermal Development Company (GDC)

31. Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited

32. National Defence University (NDU)

33. The Kenya Space Agency

34. The Shipyard Limited