The soon-to-be implemented matatu cashless payment portal to be manned by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), will provide individual contact information and routes as well as fare payment details as contained in passenger manifest. MOBILE MONEY“The system should have capabilities to generate detailed daily, monthly and yearly reports based on set parameters of a passenger manifest. It should support mobile money and Pesalink transactions as well as have reporting functionalities,” it says. “System solution should have information security safeguards to check for URL tampering and common security breaches while the requests are sent via security frameworks,” tender papers say. Matatu operators support the e-payment platform, saying, they hope it could seal revenue leakages by rogue staff, and restore order in the industry.

Source: Daily Nation June 14, 2020 20:26 UTC