This comes hours after SportPesa chief executive Ronald Karauri announced that a licence held by a new operator, Milestone Games Limited, had acquired the rights to use the SportPesa brand-name in Kenya and that he was delighted to resume operations. I’m happy to announce that the SportPesa brand is back under a new BCLB license holder. I’m happy to announce that the SportPesa brand is back under a new BCLB license holder. The reason being there is a variance in the tradename the Board approved vis-à-vis the name Milestone Games Limited currently wishes to adopt,” he said. The board had suspended Sportpesa’s licence back on July 1, 2019, claiming that SportPesa owed millions in unpaid tax.

Source: Standard Digital October 31, 2020 11:37 UTC