No More Excuses: M-Pesa Services Back Up and Running

By Soko Directory Team / Published December 10, 2018 | 7:57 am

For those of you who have been telling those they owe money that “M-Pesa iko chini, hatumi” (M-Pesa is down, transactions not going through), your celebrations ended a long time ago as M-Pesa services are now back up and running.

The slight outage that hit the country on Saturday evening showed just how Safaricom’s M-Pesa is that important to the lives of millions of Kenyans. Everything almost came to a standstill and people almost went into the famous “serikali saidia” slogan.

The services are now back. Kenyans can now send and receive cash as well as comfortably pay for products and services through Lipa Na M-Pesa. Now that some notable supermarkets are giving out presents to shoppers, including brand new cars for those who pay via M-Pesa, today is that day you can visit one of them if you didn’t do it over the weekend.

For my fellow gamblers, oh sorry, not gamblers but “investors” because that is what we are. I understand that on Saturday, we could not “invest” because M-Pesa was down but now that the services are back, let us show the “Mhindi” that we could have won tremendously was it not for M-Pesa.

For those who were “shortly” detained in restaurants on Saturday like my friend Tracey, hope you are not still furious. In fact, today is the day for “payback”. Walk into the same restaurant, order double the amount of food, ask them if they still remember your face then pay them via M-Pesa hata uwaongezee za kutoa.

Someone said that millions of Kenyans cannot do without M-Pesa and I agree. Let me also add that several relationships would be over in the absence of M-Pesa. You don’t believe that? Try this out. Sit down, craft the most romantic message for your fiancée, send it and gauge the reaction. Now, try this out, just send the same fiancée cash on M-Pesa without saying anything then gauge the reaction. You see?

Bottom-line? M-Pesa is back.

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