Transferring money through Safaricom’s M-Pesa. The judiciary's Faini Chap Chap service enables traffic offenders to pay penalties using M-Pesa. Photo/FILE
What you need to know:
Dubbed Faini Chap Chap; the service will enable convicted traffic offenders to pay penalties using M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile money transfer platform.
The pilot phase of the programme will only be available for the payment of traffic fines imposed by the Kibera and Milimani courts in Nairobi; and will thereafter be rolled countrywide.
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga is scheduled to launch the service Thursday, as a measure to counter corruption and cut the red tape associated with payment of court fines.
The seven-step mobile based solution is accessed through the Judiciary’s pay bill number 583400 on M-Pesa. The Kibera and Milimani courts have been assigned codes 1135 and 1170 respectively.
Traffic offenders can now pay fines through mobile money, in the judiciary’s latest attempt to expedite delivery of justice by adopting IT solutions.
Dubbed Faini Chap Chap; the service will enable convicted traffic offenders to pay penalties using M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile money transfer platform.
The pilot phase of the programme will only be available for the payment of traffic fines imposed by the Kibera and Milimani courts in Nairobi; and will thereafter be rolled countrywide.
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga is scheduled to launch the service Thursday, as a measure to counter corruption and cut the red tape associated with payment of court fines.
“The judiciary has developed a Judiciary Transformation Framework that has placed it on the path of institutional transformation,” reads a post on the arbiter branch of government on its website.
The seven-step mobile based solution is accessed through the Judiciary’s pay bill number 583400 on M-Pesa. The Kibera and Milimani courts have been assigned codes 1135 and 1170 respectively.
To make a payment, users will enter the Judiciary pay bill followed by court code number, case or file number and the amount to be paid as below:
>Select pay bill >enter pay bill no. 583400>enter account no. (Court code, case of file no.)>enter amount>enter M-Pesa PIN>confirm details and press OK.
The move to turn to mobile money to speed up access to justice adds to other initiatives adopted by the bench in a bid to shed off its tainted image of corruption and high handedness.
The courts are already using video conferencing solutions where judges conduct virtual appearances, thereby reducing the frequency of travel and costs associated with transporting judicial officers, paralegal staff, witnesses and advocates to court.
The ultimate arbiter of conflict has also embarked on digitising all rulings delivered by Kenyan courts. So far, more than 100 million pages of High Court rulings and 10,000 Court of Appeal records have been converted into electronic format for easy access.
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