Corruption cartels in different Ministries have suffered a major shock after The National Treasury said that plans are underway to pay private companies providing services to the government directly.
This will bypass Ministries and centralize financing of government expenditure. Almost all corruption cases currently in court are related to flouting tender rules or awarding contracts to proxies.
‘Lipa kama tender!’ was a saying coined to emphasize on how lucrative working with the government can be. But there will be no loopholes if the new laws are implemented.
“Cash management is now done under IFMIS and we’ve integrated this with the Central Bank so that very soon we should be able to pay suppliers directly from the Treasury and Central Bank rather than have many accounts in the various ministries,” Treasury CS Henry Rotich said during a forum on open governance.
Rotich said the move was part of government’s commitment to open governance in a bid to eradicate rampant corruption in State entities.
“We’ve embraced e-citizen which means people are now paying for government services electronically and we’ve replicated the same when it comes to payment of taxes through the tax portal,” he said.