SportPesa Jackpot Winner: The SportPesa Mega Jackpot has been won by a former parliamentary aspirant at the August 8 elections.
Cosmas Korir, who vied for and lost the Konoin parliamentary seat in Bomet county on a CCM ticket has won Sh. 208,733,619 SportPesa mega jackpot announced by the betting firm on Sunday.
“We have a mega jackpot winner Sh. 208,733,619,” SportPesa said via its social media pages.
Korir got a call from SportPesa CEO Ronald Karauri who referred to him as “sir”- hinting at the gender.
Facebook-Live conversation between Jackpot winner and Karauri: “Hey Kosmas, vipi bwana, uko wapi? West Pokot! Una fanya nini West Pokot? County Government! Congratulation your life has changed!”
Korir is currently the Director of Agriculture in West Pokot county.
To win the jackpot, one must correctly predict 17 football matches.
The betting firm said anyone who correctly predicted 12 matches and above in the latest jackpot will be awarded a bonus.
It said 16 correct predictions will get Sh. 11,628,589 each while 15 correct predictions will each get Sh. 487,756.
Those who predicted 14 matches correctly will walk away with Sh. 101,004 each, 13 correct predicts will get Sh. 12,691 while 12 correct predictions will get Sh. 4,249 each.
According to the Finance Bill 2018 passed by parliament on September 20, all customer winnings on betting will attract 20 per cent taxation.
“We are in the process of clarifying the details of the implementation of the 20% tax on customers’ winnings. Once this is clear, we will communicate further,” SportPesa said in tweet.