A lady w** participated in the Safaricom Bonyeza na Ushinde promotion but did not win anything has taken her complain to the Senate. Ms Lucy Kache Ngao has asked senators to investigate the activities of the mobile network service provider to find out if its lotteries are indeed genuine compe***ions or mere fleece traps.
Ms Ngao’s pe***ion was tabled yesterday by Senator Emma Mbura, the Star reports. She says through media campaigns she was made to believe she would be an instant m***ionaire if she participated in the Bonyeza Ushinde na Safaricom promotion, which was held from August 7 to October 5 last year and from November 7 last year to January 5 this year.
Entries sent through SMS were charged at a premium rate, t**ugh she does not disclose **w much she invested in the lottery. Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro ordered an investigation into whether money raised in lotteries, especially by foreign-owned companies, is repatriated out of the country and report back in 60 days.
Mbura said some lotteries are a means to fleece poor Kenyans of their hard-earned money. “We need to ***** all these lottery compe***ions from different companies afresh. Some are too good to be true, thus attracting desperate and un*******ing Kenyans,” she told the Star on the p**ne on Wednesday.
Ethuro said the pe***ion raises important issues and ordered the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights to take up the matter. He said issues include appropriate regulatory framework for gaming control and licensing and the need for reform to address the new medium of gaming, such as mobile p**nes.
Ethuro said the public needs to be educated on gaming and lotteries and their effects on participants. Ethuro said the Senate s**uld come up with laws to regulate the industry at both the national and county level.
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