Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and other county officials after a meeting with Co-operative Bank officials to discuss on how to automate the collection of all Kiambu county revenue on Thursday. [Photo|The Star]

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Clients seeking services in Kiambu county will start using automated services after the county partnered with Co-operative Bank to upgrade the county’s revenue collection system.

Speaking at the county headquarters where he met bank officials, Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu said the automation will increase revenue collection. “This will seal loopholes through which the county has been losing money through corruption. We want to upgrade our payment systems whereby our clients will pay revenue directly to our bank account through the bank or its agents spread across the county, by mobile banking or through internet banking” Waititu said on Thursday as quoted by the Star.Waititu added that the Finance department will monitor each sub-county's revenue collection through an integrated revenue collection system which will be able to tell the best performing sub-county regarding revenue collection.He added that one will no longer be required to queue at the offices or county hospitals to make payments.Cashless payments in hospitals will be made at the point of entry and there will be no need to move around with receipts from one corner of the hospital to another to justify payments made earlier for services, reports the Star.The bank has 976 agents in the county and nine branches in each sub-county. The county has 12 sub-counties.“We are opening three more branches in Ruiru, Gatundu and Lari sub-counties soon,” said Co-operative Bank’s Chris Chege, who is in charge of wholesale products.Waititu said the county is considering seeking funding from the bank to construct a state-of-the-art hospital in Githunguri sub-county.“Our county projects cannot stop when we have partners like you,” he said, referring to Co-operative Bank.

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