Safaricom cannot give KES 140 million for the KRFU circuit and not demand accountability. Do you folk want that money to end up in some unscrupulous official's bank account?

@Ob1Kanobi
Between 2009 and 2012, Safaricom was sponsoring a football tournament that is even more important than creating their own team. That ended when Nyamweya demanded a 20% slice of the sponsorship money.

Safaricom's model of financing grassroots youth tournaments is much better than creating yet another corporate team like Tusker or KRA or Bandari.

I do agree that Safaricom can perform goodwill say by purchasing tickets for Gor Mahia who are now Kenya's only worthy flag bearers after the U23 team was trashed 3-0 by Egypt.

@Ob1

With regard to KRU, a sponsor need not point out specific cases. They simply need to ask KRU to account for the money. If KRU cannot account for money then shame on them because it is not that difficult. They refuse to account for it because they want to eat. By the way the accusations of corruption and lack of accountability are mostly coming from KRFU affiliated clubs.

With regard to AK, doping is not the problem. The problem is AK and their lack of action about doping. They have known for years now that Kenyans are doping. But they refuse to take action. This ruins the reputation of all Kenyan athletes and possibly any sponsor.

On football, I do not think any sponsor should support FKF or any of their activities without demanding accountability. Otherwise Nyamweya will just eat. And I do not think any sponsor should associate with a club if there is no accountability. Rather than give the club money, they should directly pay players. Club officials are just as kleptomaniacal as national officials.

Even @tycho has been compromised

So far, the world is run and financed through corruption. I can't be certain that even these sponsors are corruption free. Even the way power and wealth are distributed assures us of an intensely corrupt environment, so shall the poor be the ones to pay the heavy price of lies?

To me, the poor, the exploited youth need to be strengthened and one way of doing it may involve giving the devil his due.

Some sports have sponsors throwing in a lot of money in Kenya still. Take golf for example where big corporates like KQ, Safcom, KCB, Nation, Barclays, KPLC and other countless corporates sponsor golf in clubs around the country week in week out