Was the reduction in parking fees in Nairobi only a rumour?

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Was the move by the Nairobi County Government to reduce parking fees by Ksh. 100 just a hoax or a way of distracting residents from the matatu CBD ban that got them all angry?

Well, it might be so as motorists in Nairobi are still paying Ksh. 300 to park in the city center despite a directive by Governor Mike Sonko to reduce the parking fee to Ksh. 300.

 

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The County Finance Bill 2018, which cuts the parking fee by Ksh. 100, was signed into law by Governor Mike Sonko last Tuesday.

The MCAs approved the Finance Bill 2018 on December 4, thus reducing the charges. Before that, the ward representatives had slashed the fees from Ksh. 400 which was proposed by the county treasury.

As it turns out, most motorists are unaware of the law change and thus continue paying higher fees.

“It has not been published anywhere. The county should have informed us. I have not seen anything like that on TV or in the newspaper,” said Tom Wachira, one motorist.

 

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County Parking Director Tom Tinega said it would take a while for the lower fees to take effect because the county needs to adjust its online systems to register Ksh. 200.

“There is a process so that we enter the changes into the system because we are not collecting manually,” he said.

“I do not have any power over the ICT department to dictate the period they would take for the programming,” he added.

However, JamboPay; the online payment services company collecting revenue for the county yesterday claimed that City Hall had not instructed it to register the lower fees.

“We cannot effect any change unless we are instructed by the client. If that happens, we make the changes immediately,” Chief Executive Danson Muchemi said.

 

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The capital has about 12,000 public parking slots with about 6,000 of them reserved for government and private institutions and the other 6,000 slots for daily parking. In the last month, the county has repossessed over 200 public parking slots that had been grabbed.

Nairobi county clocks in approximately Ksh. 2 million daily from parking fees in the city.

As things stand now, there’s no way of knowing when motorists will start enjoying the lower parking fees.

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