Who owns E-Citizen, the platform where all government payments are made? This question dominated Parliament Thursday with MPs initiating a probe to establish who between the government and private vendors is fully in charge of the revenue generating platform.

Parliament is also investigating why the system is still being run by vendors if the government is in control of the system. The system was established in 2014 by Webmasters Kenya Limited, a company founded and run by James Ayugi.

A parliamentary committee has now directed the National Treasury to avail the contractual document between the government and the vendors of the platform by next week, to determine authenticity. The issue came up during a sitting of the National Assembly Finance Committee where Treasury Principal Secretary Chris Kiptoo was explaining the 2025/2026 Budget policy Statement.