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How illegal charges have exposed Sh9.4b hole in e-Citizen

President William Ruto during the first anniversary of the e-Citizen Directorate, at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, (KICC )Nairobi.[PCS]

Parliament has recommended the scrapping of e-Citizen following an audit report that the platform may have led to the loss of Sh9.4 billion in revenue.

The special audit tabled before the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee also details how Kenyans paid Sh2.6 billion in convenience fees for use of the platform owned by a private vendor identified as Webmasters Kenya Ltd.

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