Similar scenario! A Nairobi makanga will most likely be making 30K a month. Hardly the money to afford a good life but is still better than being jobless.

Even in Kenya, if an uptown fellow came upon such money, it would not have made it to the news.

And it's honest makanga not "honest".

But I agree, we are one very dishonest nation.

AM 100% sure its now THE LAW that you should return in Kenya, a woman was jailed recently for not returning, and that set a good PRECEDENT on this issue, even what you pick, you should take to the police station, it is STEALING, its theft pure and simple and very poor morals, do we need LAWS to FORCE people to do the right thing? Do we need to "police" people so that they can return what is not theirs, as humburgler is claiming, this is the root of our problems, how can we eliminate this kind of thinking and save the country billions and billions for policing people which we can use to build all houses, buy food etc and live in plenty?

VALUES, its right to question, what drives them? We could pursue all sorts of logical avenues to deal with such, even create 'a finders keepers law', but there is non for sure, not unless a judge declares it yours, i guess such laws may have existed in several ancient savage civilizations, some sort of 'legal corruption' but they definitely collapsed, and i can guarantee you such a law will be chaotic, stealing is not this complicated, even with phone being "technology" does not create a new scenario, same old logic about whats not yours, you can make a "using mpesa is illegal but keeping and refusing to return is ok kinda law" however, i know it is impossible to distinguish your mpesa, from another persons mpesa in terms of spending, if i have 5k in my mpesa, i inadvertently receive 1k, have a Nyang Nyongo 3k lunch, have i spent your money yet or when exactly do i begin spending it, if i use all of it and remain with zero, and ten minutes later, i receive 10k from a friend, is your 1k inside this ten k or am i too late and have spent your money? What if i refund you at this point? she was jailed for being a thief and staling money which she knows is not hers by not refunding it, stealing is stealing, calling safaricom customer service is free, not unless you argue you are "saving energy and saliva" lakini watu watajua hiyo ni ukora tu.

With bitcoin however, which is some sort of modification of "mpesa wallets" and ledgers, you are allowed to "steal", because you have no way of tracing the sender, i opened a bitcoin wallet 5 years ago but did not use it, i have a feeling there are bitcoins in it, because many bitcoin thieves would stash stolen coins in "stray accounts', i still have my key, if i find bitcoins inside, i donno what to do, maybe send to charity, this is just one of the problems with bitcoins, its a good money system for thieves and thugs

Agreed, everybody is wondering how to deal with the issue of our law dept. even Uhuru was begging for laws the other day, hapa ni failure kabisa, because they wait for wazungus instructions with their kingoso wigs, even in mpesa where Kenyans have been leading the way, such a simple issue as law on sending money has taken them over ten years, Kenya will have to rebuild its whole law afresh from scratch!