Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has responded to claims suggesting that the company is set to sell its M-pesa services to Facebook.
Collymore on Friday rubbished the claims terming them fake internet stories.
"Somebody made it up. It is just an Internet story. I was supposed to meet him but I could not because I was in a Safaricom board meeting," Collymore is quoted by the star.
According to Collymore, Zuckerberg could hire developers and build a payment platform if he really wanted a facility like M-Pesa.
On Thursday, social media was filled with reports indicating that the buyout was about to happen since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had just visited the country last week.
During his surprise visit to Kenya, Zuckerberg said that he was in the country to learn more about mobile money transfer system.