M-PESA services to be unavailable from midnight Saturday 6th Nov to 4am Nov 20

Safaricom through a statement has announced that it will be conducting a maintenance exercise on its mobile money platform M-PESA tomorrow, Saturday 19th October. The scheduled maintenance will begin from 2359h to 0400h Wednesday 20th October morning.

All M-PESA services will be unavailable at the stipulated time. This means that Kenyans should make the necessary arrangements if they plan to transact over that period.

M-PESA has grown to be more than a mobile money product for sending and receiving cash. It has powerful business tools that are used widely by people to conduct local and international businesses.In Kenya, the market share of M-PESA in the mobile money space is at more than 100%. The mobile money platform has more than 30 million local active users, with 50 million users in the markets that use M-PESA in Africa.