Ruto's office on spot for defaulting on parking fee

As Nairobi county struggles to realise its car parking revenue projections since 2013, the office of the deputy president William Ruto is the topmost government department that has failed to honour its parking fee debts.

With a budget allocation of Sh880 million, the DP’s office has failed to settle its parking bills for more than five years.

According to a local business publication, documents reveal that the DP’s office has arrears of Sh189.08 million for 113 parking slots on Harambee Avenue and Sh14.06 for ten parking spaces along the Parliament Lane. The debt has accrued since 2013.

The total amount the DP’s office owe City Hall is a whopping Sh203 million

Nairobi County Director of parking Tom Tinega told a local daily that, despite several written requests to have the debt cleared, no positive response has been made to offset the huge arrears.

“We do not know if it is default because we have been making demand notes to them. Some like Parliament and Kenya Revenue Authority used to pay a while back but they are not doing that now,” Mr Tinega said.

It is also reported that the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KBS), Kenya Police and Ministry of Finance are perennial fee defaulter since 1999 with a debt of  Sh42.3 million for 64 slots.

Other fee defaulters are the Kenyan High Court which owes the city hall Sh105.1 for 72 parking slots in Milimani and the central bank of Kenya which is yet to clean its Sh77.2 million debt for 46 slots, both from the year 2012.

During the 2017/2018 financial year, Nairobi collected a jaw-dropping Sh1.8 billion, which was far below the Sh2.05 billion collected during the 2016 financial year.