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Kenya has licensed 29 companies to offer cashless platforms for payment of fare in Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) including Safaricom Mpesa, NCBA, JamboPay, payment gateway firm-Cellulant, KCB and Craft Silicon https://www.kahawatungu.com/safaricom-among-29-firms-licensed-to-install-cashless-payment-platforms-in-matatus/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
From my archives:
How Nairobi’s Matatus Defied the Will of Kenya’s Cashless Policy Makers https://kioneki.com/2018/08/01/how-nairobis-matatus-defied-the-will-of-kenyas-cashless-policy-makers/
How Nairobi’s Matatus Defied the Will of Kenya’s Cashless Policy Makers https://kioneki.com/2018/08/01/how-nairobis-matatus-defied-the-will-of-kenyas-cashless-policy-makers/
"An earlier cashless fare payment platform fronted by the government, and which was launched in November 2014, flopped following strong opposition from matatu operators who felt that it was a ploy to monitor their daily earnings for taxation measures."
"At the time, the stated interest of the government was to eliminate criminal cartels that had infiltrated the PSV industry and to provide the taxman with a platform to track incomes in a sector that grosses more than Sh420 billion annually."
Let us keep in mind that cash is legal tender and digital payment instruments are not
You cannot force commuters to use digital payments because only cash is legal tender
You cannot force commuters to use digital payments because only cash is legal tender
