M-Pesa services to be unvailable for 4 hours Tuesday

All M-PESA services will on Tuesday night be disrupted due to a scheduled internal maintenance of the service’s systems.

In a notice issued on Monday, Safaricom said the disruption will affect all transactions offered by the mobile banking platform.

Safaricom added that the maintenance is scheduled to take place from Tuesday, October 19 from 11:59 PM to Wednesday, October 20 at 4:00 AM.

The purchase of airtime from a customer’s M-PESA account will also be unavailable during the maintenance period, the telecommunications giant further noted.

“The timing of this maintenance activity has been planned to result in the least of inconvenience to our customers. We apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused…,” said Safaricom.