That is the spirit, let the rest fight their battles

The best thing to do under these circumstances is to negotiate.
Otherwise you can only register some unhelpful battle-win in court, but you can never win the war against the government as long as they have the resolve.

The Camel's back is broken via CA squeeze on paybill codes.

Courts can issue orders on the authorities,- how about the Telcos who know better than rub the Gov the wrong way!

This sounds very possible.

This guy represents everything bad in this country.I find it strange that he does not seem to care and his March to the house on the hill is unstoppable despite the negative publicity.

Yao ni Betnjia not Betndani!!!

Telecom and Airtel deposits are still working.Only mpesa was shut down.

Na hii Betika ni ya nani? Surely let no one tell us that all betting firms are non- compliant except this one. We are not boarding!

True, Sportpesa confirmed that on Twitter yesterday.

Whatever he is doing is not banning betting firms and "saving the youth". These govt guys have some other motive.Also the tax story doesn't add up.KRA has given Sportpesa top taxpayer award 3 years in a row.

no witch hunting here. all betting firms were given time to put their house in order otherwise their licenses would not be renewed. and yeah, betting is a regulated industry (like banks, insurance companies, telecommunication companies etc) whose licensing is pretty competitive, subject to certain conditions and renewable.

we should be in fact cheering the government for finally bringing some sanity in this sector which had been fraught with incompetent regulation and enforcement.

like with banks and telecom companies the competent authority not only wanted tax compliance but also vetting and approval of shareholders and directors. by shareholders and directors they always insist on knowing the actual natural persons. so if they are companies they insist on knowing the people behind the companies and will ask for details until ultimately they get the natural persons even if it takes going through thousands of proxy companies. if the people are not acceptable to the competent authority then the licenses don't get issued or renewed.

ask yourself this question; if you were unable to know the identify of the shareholders and directors behind a bank or insurance company or if their had tax problems, will you be against the cbk suspending its license?

sportpesa seemingly has two problems - tax and the suitability of the natural persons behind them. those are the issues they need to address.
and it is not only sportpesa whose license was not renewed - more than twenty companies were affected.

so sportpesa needs to stop all the misleading pr campaign and put its house in order.