In another round of maintenance, M-Pesa services will be unavailable tonight from 2359hrs to Wednesday 0400hrs.

The notice issued by Safaricom says the ALL M-Pesa services including airtime purchases won’t be available. So if you have stuff you will need to do during this period of time, plan accordingly.

Official Statement on the M-Pesa outage:

We are constantly investing and innovating M-PESA to ensure that we continue to meet the needs of our customers as well as continue to support our partners in their business ambitions.

To support this continued transformation, we regularly undertake enhancements and maintenance of our systems from time to time.

In this regard, our M-PESA services shall be undergoing planned maintenance on Tuesday 19th October 2021, starting from 2359hrs to Wednesday 0400hrs. During the maintenance, all M-PESA services including airtime purchase shall be temporarily unavailable.

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 and thank you for your continued support.