Lipa Na M-Pesa services to be unavailable as Safaricom announces maintenance
A customer conducts a mobile money transfer at a Safaricom agent stall in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by: REUTERS / Thomas Mukoya
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Leading
telecommunications company Safaricom has announced a planned system maintenance
that will run from 11pm on Saturday, May 20, until 4am on Sunday, May 21, 2023.
The firm, in a
public statement released on Friday, stated that a number of services will be
unavailable during the stated time period, among them the PayBill and Buy Goods
Lipa Na M-Pesa facilities.
Others are;
M-Pesa Business to Customer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B), Daraja Portal
and all M-Pesa APIs, M-Pesa organization portal, dealer portal, and Lipa Na M-Pesa
portal.
Services for International
Money Transfers (Western Union) and M-Pesa Global, as well as the M-Pesa App
and Safaricom App will also be shut down.
Further, M-Shwari,
KCB M-Pesa, M-Kesho, Hustler Fund, Fuliza New Limit allocation, Pinless Top-up,
and loT services will be affected by the maintenance.
“All other
services including calls, data and SMS and all other M-PESA services will be
available as usual,” read the statement.
“We are sorry
for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your support in maintaining our
position as the country's leading provider.”
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