The Kenya Revenue Authority has flagged as fake a tweet that has been going viral on social media alleging that the state had a hand in M-Pesa downtime.
"Kindly be advised that this is fake news," KRA said through a post on X.
The X post was made by one Asamoh who claimed the government shut down M-pesa on Tuesday.
"Government has shut down M-pesa through Safaricom to integrate it with KRA systems that is why Mpesa is down," the X post read.
Safaricom-owned M-Pesa services were back after hours of downtime.
The company said Kenyans can now continue enjoying the services.
"All M-Pesa services are now available. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience as we worked to restore services," Safaricom said in a statement.
There were no transactions through M-Pesa, and a message popped up indicating; "The parameters of data sources are null null".
The same error was experienced while trying to transact through the M-Pesa app.
"M-PESA is undergoing scheduled maintenance," the pop-up indicated.
