TumaPesa helps mobile users send money, pay bills to right recipients

Five months before Safaricom launched a feature where customers can confirm the name of recipients, two techies had already developed an app meant to curb erroneous mobile cash transactions.

James Wahome and Fabian Kithusi are the brains behind TumaPesa, an app launched in May 2015, front running Safaricom which unveiled its own Hakikisha feature later in October.