Immigration and Citizen Services PS Julius Bitok said that the state collected Sh903.6 million yesterday alone.
Of the amount, nearly a third was generated from transactions in U.S. dollars, totaling $1.45 million compared to Sh680.4 million in the local currency.
This comes after President William Ruto directed all state agencies to onboard all their services onto the eCitizen platform by the end of this year.
He also directed that all payments for government services should be channeled through a consolidated paybill of 222222.
This was intended to inject better management and transparency in revenue collection and to stem leakages from numerous collection points.
Following the directive and with over 14,000 services currently accessible and payable on eCitizen, the daily revenue collection rose to an average of Sh300 million last month.
Data from Treasury reveals that in November, Sh4.66 billion was collected, up from Sh1.44 billion in June before the presidential directive. The amounts for July, August, and September were Sh2.36 billion, Sh3.6 billion, and Sh4.2 billion, respectively.
The government is banking on the average 5,000 new users who sign up to eCitizen daily, in addition to the 11 million eCitizen existing users, and the onboarding of more services to further increase its daily revenue collection
