{"id":10925,"date":"2020-07-09T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2020-07-09T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:34:20","slug":"city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills","title":{"rendered":"City Assembly moots plan to have NMS handle payment of pending bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Nairobi County Assembly is now seeking to hand over more functions to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).<\/p>\n<p>MCAs want the new Mohamed Badi-led institution to take over payment of pending bills under the finance docket, citing bias, ineffectiveness and delays by the county executive in executing the task.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s finance department has also been faulted for failing to ensure pending bills are cleared. This was revealed in a motion by nominated MCA June Ndegwa, which was tabled and approved last week.<\/p>\n<p>The MCA was also concerned that the county executive\u2019s finance department is yet to pay Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) despite the Covid-19 crisis that has hit businesses hard.<\/p>\n<p>She said small scale traders, especially women, youth and persons with disabilities, have not been prioritised in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak to safeguard their businesses and called on NMS to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The MCA also called for a fresh scrutiny of the county\u2019s pending bills to ensure fast and efficient payment of suppliers and contractors.\u201cIt is outrageous that Nairobi County has a pending bill of Sh9,800 owed to a supplier and dating back to 2019,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Nairobi County Assembly is now seeking to hand over more functions to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). MCAs want the new Mohamed Badi-led institution to take over payment of pending bills under the finance docket, citing bias, ineffectiveness and delays by the county executive in executing the task. The county\u2019s finance department has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[426,3583,2400],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-nairobi-county-assembly","tag-nairobi-mcas","tag-nairobi-metropolitan-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>City Assembly moots plan to have NMS handle payment of pending bills - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nairobi County Assembly is now seeking to hand over more functions to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).MCAs want the new Mohamed Badi-led institution\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Assembly moots plan to have NMS handle payment of pending bills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nairobi County Assembly is now seeking to hand over more functions to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).MCAs want the new Mohamed Badi-led institution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-09T19:34:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/hwxmrebixcpajwvsl5e7272087e0a9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"City Assembly moots plan to have NMS handle payment of pending bills\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-09T19:34:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/hwxmrebixcpajwvsl5e7272087e0a9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nairobi County Assembly\",\"Nairobi MCAs\",\"Nairobi Metropolitan Services\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/city-assembly-moots-plan-to-have-nms-handle-payment-of-pending-bills\",\"name\":\"City Assembly moots plan to have NMS handle payment of pending bills - 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