A lobby group, Operation Linda Ugazuti, will file an application seeking to quash President William Ruto's decision to direct all government digital payments into one digital payment platform effective September 30.
All ministries, state departments, and agencies are required to be part of the onboarding of all government services to e-Citizen ahead of the September 30, deadline.
President Ruto on June 30 directed that over 1,000 Paybill numbers used for the collection of payments for government services be shut down within 90 days.
Ruto said the government could not account for some of the Paybill numbers used by various government agencies.
He said that all government services be onboarded onto e-Citizen and payments made through 222222 Paybill.
This is what the group will be challenging in court today.
Sepereraly, Magistrate Felix Kombo will be mentioning the Sh3.5 billion Anglo leasing case ahead of judgement day that's yet to be communicated.
In June this year, the court cleared suspects of another Anglo leasing case that involved Sh 9.5 billion.
In that case, the late David Mwiraria, former PS Dave Mwangi, David Onyonka, Rashmi Kamani, Deepak Kamani, and Infotalent Limited were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government of Sh9.5 billion.
Magistrate Martha Mutuku acquitted them saying the prosecution failed to establish a case against them.
In the case before Kombo, the investigating officer already testified.
Part of the evidence by the investigative officer (IO) before the court is that they were not able to trace a mysterious foreigner who executed the Anglo leasing contract that led to the loss of billions of shillings.
During the hearing, IO told the court that documents in relation to the project were always being signed by one Brian Mills but to date, they have never been able to locate him.
“We sought to know who B Mills is but we did not get him. Our endeavors to locate him even though Mutual Legal Assistance from Switzerland and the United Kingdom was futile,” he said
