{
  "id": 2154055,
  "title": "Tigania MP urges Safaricom to notify customers before reassigning old phone numbers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/tigania-mp-urges-safaricom-to-notify-customers-before-reassigning-old",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T14:12:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/tigania-mp-urges-safaricom-to-notify-customers-before-reassigning-old-phone-numbers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Tigania West MP John Kanyuithia Mutunga has called on Safaricom to notify customers before reassigned mobile phone numbers are issued to new users, raising concerns about confusion and privacy when inactive lines change hands. Mutunga told Parliament on Wednesday, August 20, 2026, that customers can lose access to their lines after losing a phone, misplacing […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}