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Kenya: Nairobi Water Company Losing Millions of Shillings Due to Faulty Billing System

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Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company continues to lose millions of shillings due to faulty water billing system despite promise to upgrade the system.

The utility firm lost a whopping Sh13.6 million in only a year in the financial year ending June 30, 2018 due to the faulty water billing system.

REVENUE COLLECTION

According to a report by Nairobi County Assembly Public Investments Committee (PIC), Nairobi Water lost the millions in the period between July, 2017 and June, 2018 through the company’s customer management system ‘Oracle database program’ also known as ‘sequence’.

The committee chaired by Upper Savanna MCA Stazo Omung’ala also revealed that there were several gaps in the revenue collection database, meaning the water firm could not account for records and the amounts of water revenue collected in the year under review.

The report revealed that in the year 2017, the system could not account for Sh1.3 million in revenue for the month of July, August Sh845,199, September Sh1.02 million, October Sh978,736, November 951,760 and Sh1.22 in the month of December.

In the year 2018, Sh1.3 million could not be accounted for in the month of January, February Sh1.17 million, March Sh1.3 million , April Sh1.14 million, May Sh1.5 million, and June Sh1.06 bringing the total to Sh13.67 million for the 2017/2018 fiscal year.

BILLING SYSTEM

“The company is losing huge financial resources and the committee had noted that as a deliberate act. The use of the data base program also known as ‘Sequence’ was seen as the prime cause for variance in results as explained by the management,” read the report in part.

The committee was considering the report of the Auditor General on the financial statements for the company for the year ended June 2018.