Kukosa sio ujinga, simtetei but what happened to him can happen to any of us. He should work in rebuilding his life.

Very true!!
This guy was fixed by the same guys who fixed then Kenya Cricket Council chairman Sharad Ghai. He was caught up in local and international intrigues and ended up a victim. There was a war for control of Kenyan cricket between the Hindus, the Ismailis, the Bohras and the Jains. Even though majority of the star cricket players then were black Kenyans, the management of Cricket then and up to now was a preserve of the Asians, but the Asian were not united and were divided into their own social and religious groupings

Odumbe was allied to the Ismailis, being a player for Aga Khan. The Ismailis controlled Aga Khan, and many of the top positions in the then Kenya Cricket Council whose chairman was Sharad Ghai. But Ghai was very corrupt and hated by many of the other groups who wanted him out by all means. Unfortunately, it was impossible to justify removing him because Kenya was then performing extremely well in world cricket thanks to solid performances by Odumbe, Asif Karim, Steve Tikolo, Ravindu Shah, Thomas Odoyo, the Suji brothers and the Obuya brothers. The best players were obviously Odumbe and Tikolo though Odumbe was more charismatic, photogenic, media friendly etc.

Kenya was doing so well that it was miles ahead of Bangladesh the only other One-Day nation that did not have Test status. Bangladesh was on the verge of getting granted test status, but they could not justify granting Bangladesh test status before Kenya.

Then it was action time.
The readiness of Kenya and Bangladesh were to be assessed at around the same time. An Indian inspector came to Nairobi to assess Kenya, and concluded that Kenya was fit to join the elite test nations. Everybody was excited for a week. But the following week, as British guy came in and rubbished Kenya saying we were decades away from Test readiness. Interestingly, even local journalists were more willing to side with the British guy than the Indian guy.

Kenya's biggest supporters in its quest for Test status had all along been India and the West Indies, and most of the real tours Kenya made were to India and one to the West Indies. South Africa, under Ali Bacher had also been friendly to Kenya, but white-dominated Zimbabwe remained aloof.

The World Cup was just weeks away and everyone predicted that Kenya was going to be thrashed like step children. Long story short, Kenya ended up fourth in that World Cup and people started asking questions on why Kenya wasn't a Test nation yet. Now we were starting to ruffle big feathers.
The war to dismantle Kenyan cricket was launched at high levels of the ICC. First to go was Kenya's best cricketer, Maurice Odumbe. Second to go was KCA chairman Sharad Ghai. Ghai's local enemies were used to try and remove him. But unfortunately, Ghai had total control of the KCA, the way Nyamweya has control of FKF now, it was impossible to remove him. Mega corruption charges were leveled against him and the Sports Minister, Ochillo Ayacko was convinced to allow a new body called Cricket Kenya and led by Ghai's enemy Samir Inamdar to take over cricket affairs in Kenya. Odumbe was easy to deal with.

Once Inamdar took over, Kenya cricket took a nosedive. Even tours to India are nowadays impossible to make. Meanwhile Bangladesh is now a Test nation while Kenya was stripped of even the One Day International status that we had. Nowadays we have to compete with the likes of Netherlands, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, UAE, Nepal etc in some nondescript cups.

And wonder of wonders. The five year ban, even though recommended by the ICC, still had to be approved by the Kenya Cricket Association, before it became effective. The Kenyan association could simply have handed him a fifty thousand shilling fine and allowed him to play on, just like the Australian board did for Shane Warne who had been handed a lengthy ban by the ICC for receiving money from a bookmaker, which the Australian board reduced to a few thousand dollars.. Easy Peasy. But the Kenya Association just sat there like donkeys and allowed the ban to stay. The ICC cannot ban a player if his association does not approve the ban. So the guy is right in saying he was screwed by the Kenya association too. Useless pigs.

Secondly, an appeal of the ban even at the High Court in Nairobi would have allowed him to continue playing for years as the matter is heard in our slow courts. Useless Lawyer Kapila did not even advise Odumbe that an appeal was possible. Dude got screwed good

Very true!!
This guy was fixed by the same guys who fixed then Kenya Cricket Council chairman Sharad Ghai. He was caught up in local and international intrigues and ended up a victim. There was a war for control of Kenyan cricket between the Hindus, the Ismailis, the Bohras and the Jains. Even though majority of the star cricket players then were black Kenyans, the management of Cricket then and up to now was a preserve of the Asians, but the Asian were not united and were divided into their own social and religious groupings

Muache wivu

Odumbe have done more for this country than all of you on this forum

Sure he messed up. Who doesn't? I have.

But its true that when Kenyans treat him like trash, that ain't fair at all.

This is one of the reasons why I decided I will never do anything for Kenyans or Kenya. These people ain't royo.