Robert Alai has now branded Kenyan Journalists and fans who dismissed claims that Kenya Premier League teams were fixing matches as fools
The blogger claimed in mid-January that Sportpesawere paying players to fixture matches something that saw home receive bashing.
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However, on Monday it emerged that his match-fixing claims were true but the company that is making payments to players is yet to be known. According to Kakamega Homeboyz Chairman Cleophas Shimanyula his players confession that they were being paid to fix matches.
Head coach Paul Nkata was forced to run away to Uganda and has been suspended due to the claims. Alai took to twitter to attack the journalists and Sports betting firm Sportpesa after Football Kenya Federation President Nick Mwendwa admitted match-fixing was huge problem.
When I talked about match-fixing, fools (including journalists) insulted me and called me all manner of names. Now the FKF boss is openly admitting that there is serious case of match-fixing locally. And let me tell you, Sportpesa is the leading culprit in this. pic.twitter.com/PKGKmrOVlG
— Robert Alai (@RobertAlai) January 29, 2019