NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 20 – The National Treasury has started to receive pending bills and claim submissions from the public aimed at clearing outstanding arrears owed by the government.
The Pending Bills Verification Committee said that the exercise, which started yesterday and ends on August 31, will apply for arrears between the period June 1, 2005, and June 30, 2022.
The special committee is tasked with scrutinizing and analyzing the existing national government unsettled bills.
“For all this period, there are areas where the government was not able to settle various bills for various reasons and we have in the past received a number of pending bills which were submitted by the various state departments and agencies,” Tirop Kosgei, Vice Chairman Pending Bills Verification Committee said.
A total of 1,537 companies had submitted unpaid pending bill requests to the state worth Sh145.5 billion as of January 31, 2024.
The claims were distributed to 38 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).
Out of the 1,537 claims, 309 were for goods, 995 for services, 1,197 for work, and 2 were for employee- or labor-related requests.
