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ShujaaPay: A revolutionary fintech solution making headlines!

Innovation and Green Technology Club

Rewel Mumbo

Data Science

ShujaaPay: A revolutionary fintech solution making headlines! An OUK Data Science student develops a “touch me not” fintech solution that uses voice prompts to transact business!

Meet Rewel Mumbo, the innovator behind Shujaa Pay, a fintech solution that enables persons with physical disabilities to carry out digital financial transactions without physically touching their devices.

The Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Mr. Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen presents Rewel Mumbo (Lead developer of ShujaaPay) and Ms. Pauline Odanga (middle left), with an award for emerging top in their competition Generative AI category. Pauline Odanga is a Data Science Student at the open University of Kenya.
Innovators during a pitch demonstration

From left: Peter Chege (School of Education), the developer of Tutorbot Ai; Mr. Michael Mang’anyu, (School of Business and Economics); creator of Smokers Inn Madam Betsy Wesonga, HOD Student Affairs and Innovation Club Patron; Ronald Muteti of Rabbit Link; Austin Apollo (School of Science and Technology and developer of FamPesa; and Solomon Kibet (School of Education) developer of ElimuSmartPlan)

“We are ready for industrialization 5.0, or perhaps we are already there, because that is how OUK prepares us. To be futuristic because today is gone” quips Rewel!.

October 2026 begun with a historic milestone for the students Innovation and Greentech club as ShujaaPay developers (Rewel Mumbo, Pauline Odanga, Patricia Wanjala – all data science students from the School of Science and Technology) sign a memorandum of understanding with the Digital Content Association of Kenya (DCCAK) Thanks to the practical nature of OUK curriculum and a very vibrant student affairs division. Combining effort to develop problem solvers

It is all smiles!

Left: Pauline Odanga and Rewel Mumbo (system developers) and…

Right: Patricia Nekesa; Pauline Odanga and Rewel Mumbo pose with the university’s innovation champion and mentors: Ms. Betsy Wanjala and Dr. Ednah Milgo!

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