NTSA digital system bearing fruit

Efforts started in April 2014 to digitise Government payments are bearing results. The process, which started with a directive that all payments to Government be digitised, would later be concretised with the formation of a Task Force for Government Digital Payment (GDP).

The Task Force was handed a wide mandate that included consulting with all relevant stakeholders including all Government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) which receive payments; cataloguing all Government payment receipts; reviewing and where necessary, proposing updates to legal frameworks; developing functional requirements for the Government Payment Gateway, engaging partners to establish the Government Payment Gateway and finally, undertaking pre-roll-out planning and a pilot roll-out.