It is time for Kenya to learn that modernisation is not reform. That “tech-everything” isn’t enough. Auditor-General Eddie Ouko has said, as recently as a Press Editors’ Guild luncheon, that we must split IFMIS into IFMIS I for national government, and IFMIS II for county governments.
IFMIS is Kenya’s Integrated Financial Management Information System, effectively the technology tool through which government runs our national finances, from planning through budgeting to procurement, payment, accounting and reporting. It helps in reporting by our Controller of Budget (CoB) to Kenyans - quarterly and annually – on how and on what our tax resources are spent nationally and in the counties. It forms one input into the Auditor-General’s own annual review and audit of these accounts.
