Read Kanini Kega (sp) interview on BD this week. That is the GoK's thinking that gambling is evil and addictive and is wasting youth in Kenya.

Not only that, but I personally know one of the owners of one of the (former) top betting firms in Kenya. These guys are foreigners, so every week they used to ship out 20 million minimum to some tax haven, then on to Denmark where they stay. This is devastating to the Kenyan economy since all the top betting firms were foreign owned and doing the same procedure. Note that in betting, the company doesn't sell anything to their customers, so when they make their money, it is the same as stealing from an accounting perspective. And also note that betting companies are not large employers, they can get by with very few employees. The company I'm talking about had 20 something employees.

How exactly is this money circulating in the economy??? Everton is not within our economy! I have no issue with building a Vegas in Isiolo or North Eastern where the rich go but these small bets of 20 bob on promises of making millions in an impoverished country like Kenya is a disaster for the young jobless generation. Safaricom as much as I respect it, is an enabler of poverty.

It is very wrong to collect money from impoverished kenyans to go and sponsor premier league clubs and formula 1 racing, while also enriching the eastern european owners of the gambling firms. The illicit transfer of resources from poor africa to rich europe must be condemned. That is modern day slavery and it must be stopped. Gambling should be outlawed.

Even the small winnings are money circulating in the economy. As I stated above, the sponsoring of an English club was stupid, it even exposed them to too much scrutiny, but as long as they were sponsoring teams that the govt had no other way o sustaining them then its a loss.