Members of the Kisumu County assembly want the county to apply technological solutions to curb low revenue collections.
The members want the collection of revenue within the county to be automated for efficiency purpose and improve revenue collection. The automation of revenue motion was moved by nominated MCA Pamela Awuor who said it is necessary and timely to enable the county government meets its development objective.
Awuor said a decentralised automated revenue collection system allows for increased and timely access to information that would take too much time and effort to generate from the available hard copy records.
“It is efficient and time wastage is reduced. It does also mitigate against delays by reminding the officer to monitor bad and doubtful payments,” she said.
She said the system is cost effective with minimal training but handles vast volumes of data, reduces leakages and eases daily reconciliation done.
The nominated MCA said this is for the government to march its performance with the growth and expectations without incurring costly overheads.
She said the auto founded systems have been proven to be capable of introducing massive efficiencies to business process that increase revenue as per article 207 on revenue funds collection in the county government.