<div dir="ltr">Coming from the thought that Safaricom should have implemented this ages ago, I am wondering if perhaps they would think that's stretching their 'business mandate' too far? Like their business is to allow you to send and receive money, period. However, I guess the issue of responsible business comes up. One of the easiest things I would think they can do is to send a message to the wrong recipient as soon as possible and ask them to make the reversal, failure to which they read them the riot act as explained in the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act cited above? Back in the day, when they used to have system errors and it would be possible to make free calls, they'd be able to charge your account in retrospect as soon as the system was fixed. In which case, it should be possible to provide a reprieve to the aggrieved Mpesa user...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 10:50, Okoyo Gabriel via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I think to this regard the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act offers a solution. It creates the offence under Section 35.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>"person who<b> intentionally hides or detains</b> any electronic mail, <b>message, electronic payment</b>, credit and debit card which was found by the person or <b>delivered to the person in error</b> and which <b>ought to be delivered to another person</b>, commits an offence and is liable on conviction a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both".<br><br>Or what do you think?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:23 AM Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Listers,<div><br></div><div>I come from the school of thought where we don't need to come up with laws for every seemingly new vice perpetrated through technology. This is theft, similar to the case of the guy from Embu who build a house with money erroneously deposited in his bank account <a href="https://nairobiwire.com/2020/06/man-in-tight-spot-after-building-house-with-money-mistakenly-deposited-in-his-bank-account.html" target="_blank">https://nairobiwire.com/2020/06/man-in-tight-spot-after-building-house-with-money-mistakenly-deposited-in-his-bank-account.html</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>The Penal Code CAP 63: <br></div><div><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:16px;font-family:Arial,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><td valign="top" style="padding:1px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><font size="2">268.</font></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.3"><font size="2">Definition of stealing</font></div><div id="gmail-m_-5186187481096336438gmail-m_-4968473795902955146gmail-KE/LEG/EN/AR/P/CHAPTER
63/chap_26/sec_268/subsec_1" style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><td valign="top" style="padding:1px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><font size="2">(1)</font></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2">A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any property, is said to steal that thing or property.</font></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:small;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:small;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Kind regards, </span></p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"> Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"> Advocate </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"> Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs - Oxygene MCL</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"> Tel: +254 718 181644</font></div><div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2"><br></font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:25 AM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Daudi,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is extreme, i think a crime should be separated from basic rights to communicate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 8:31 am David Indeje via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Listers,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Something is being disccused online, initiated by Mr Boniface Mwangi:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"There should be a law that anyone who receives mobile money by error and refuses to reverse the transaction should be banned from owning a mobile line. All mobile numbers are supposed to be registered using an ID and that persons ID should be flagged to never transact again." <a href="https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1275659504647057411?s=19" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1275659504647057411?s=19</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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