No M-Pesa Payment, on Nairobi Expressway
Motorists using the soon-to-be-launched Nairobi Expressway will not be allowed to pay via M-Pesa, the highway’s operators have announced.
Only cash and electronic card payment will instead be allowed in a bid to avoid traffic congestion at tolling points occasioned by authentication of mobile transactions.
“M-Pesa payment would result in traffic congestion at tolling points,” a spokesperson of Moja Expressway told Business Daily, “It is still in consideration. It will be there in the future.”
The 27-kilometre expressway that stretches from Mlolongo through Uhuru Highway to the James Gichuru Road junction in Westlands will be operated by Moja Expressway, a subsidiary of China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) which designed, financed and constructed the road.It is set for ope...