Nairobi, May 15 -- Safaricom is working on the return of a zero-interest credit service for the purchase of goods that was last year blocked by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) hours before the launch.

Peter Ndegwa, the Safaricom chief executive, told the Business Daily the telco is making changes to the product dubbed 'Faraja' as was required by the CBK and that the product will "surely show up."

The Faraja product is owned by EDOMx Ltd, a Kenya-based financial technology firm, which had listed Safaricom and Equity Bank as its partners.

"I am sure it will show up. We needed to change a few things. We will bring it back. It needs to be approved normally just in the same way CBK approves (other products). It is a use case that customers ...