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This comes after top parastatal bosses were summoned over failure to heed the government directive. 

The Kenya Revenue Authority has directed Kenyans making payments via the mobile platform to use the official government Paybill number.

The directive comes after it's top leadership were among the several parastatal CEOs summoned by the Secretary to the cabinet to explain why they had not complied with the directive.

In a notice on Friday, KRA noted that the directive is in line with the Kenya Gazette.

"We would like to notify the public that all tax payments via mobile money shall only be made through the Government Paybill number 222222 with immediate effect in line with the Kenya Gazette No. 16008 of 2022 and the Presidential Directive, " KRA said in a notice. 

KRA Headquarters. 

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"Use the Payment Registration Number (PRN) or the Ref. Number on the Payment Slips generated from KRA Business Systems: iTax, iCMS, EGMS, and KESRA iStudent as the account number when making tax payments via mobile money."

Months ago, President William Ruto said that Kenyans will only use the PayBill number, 222222, to pay for government services.

"There is a dedicated government pay channel, 222222. The expectation of the government is that all government revenue must now use the pay channel so that Treasury can have sight of every government service that is paid for," he said.

"I am going to be making an announcement here that in the next 90 days, all other pay bills must be shut down because we have a problem with some of the PayBills that we cannot account for. We have close to over 1,000 PayBills some of which we don't have sight of. They must now be closed. "