eCitizen Convenience Fee
While most of Kenyans’ concern about the government merging its PayBill number was on how reliable the process would be, the last two moves – school fee and meal payments – have revived debate about the Ksh.50 convenience fee one is charged when paying for services on the platform. Nearly 10 years after the introduction of eCitizen in 2014, the convenience fee is still shrouded in mystery. Read more: https://citizen.digital/news/convenience-fee-the-ksh50-govt-service-charge-t...
On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 9:47 PM Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
While most of Kenyans’ concern about the government merging its PayBill number was on how reliable the process would be, the last two moves – school fee and meal payments – have revived debate about the Ksh.50 convenience fee one is charged when paying for services on the platform.
Nearly 10 years after the introduction of eCitizen in 2014, the convenience fee is still shrouded in mystery.
Read more: https://citizen.digital/news/convenience-fee-the-ksh50-govt-service-charge-t...
I haven't read the article, but I am wondering whether some services will be exempted from the convenience fee. Will the University students be subjected to it when paying for meals or that category will be zero-rated and exempt? Which then begs the question: Is that fee necessary? Is it for running the servers? Aren't the servers supposed to be run by govt employees, paid salaries by taxpayers? Whose/what convenience are we addressing? :-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
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