Kenyans are trully peculiar. Facts are thrown out the window the moment they see an advert of beautiful girls singing on top of Mt. Kenya.

Mpesa has never been Kenyan in any way shape or form.

It is also a system that can't pass muster in 95% of the countries in the world.

This was just a hardware malfunction. So what happens when real shit hits the fan. Computers fail. So what about the day it fails for 3 days not the 12 you're miffed about right now.

I still say, this Mpesa thing needs to be regulated. Your country's economy depends on it.

Lakini shauri yenu.

@amga &@ are right..this thing was Kenyan

Kenyan’s are a tolerant lot. This thing breaks down like three times a month and we just take the s**t and inconvenience. Peculiar habits indeed!

I believe those who say Mpesa is Kenyan actually mean the idea and maybe software came from Kenya but it ended up having a foreign 'inventor' and owner. They are not disputing that as implemented by Safaricom it is licensed from Vodafone.

One thing we have to realise is that the Kenyan inventor(s) may have actually come up with the idea but that does not mean that Vodafone was also not working on it independently. Maybe someone came up with the idea, pitched it to a Safaricom staff who found it great and brought it to the attention of the senior management who discarded it as they knew Vodafone was already working on the same. I at least know of someone who was working on something like that but before he could approach Safaricom or Zain, Safaricom announced Mpesa. Just shows that some ideas are so obvious there is never a monotony over them.

@Elder, Mpesa is not Kenyan and has never been. Hata kama ni patriotism. Just because you have a similar idea to my implemented idea doesn't make my idea yours.