{"id":6090,"date":"2020-07-29T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:02:01","slug":"hunger-still-looms-at-sharks-despite-betking-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":"HUNGER STILL LOOMS AT SHARKS DESPITE BETKING DEAL."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Nick Mwendwa, the founder of Kariobangi Sharks makes all the noise of big money &amp; BetKing sponsorship, we can authoritatively reveal that, Sharks players are still unpaid for almost half a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6092\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=6092\" class=\"wp-image-6092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kariobangi-sharks-v-gor-mahia-fc_6axtmo7dfhq71dnqht8bgedyd.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The players have never received even a cent from the Sharks management since the league took a break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is despite the fact that they enjoy the sponsorship of gaming firm BetWay and have now gotten another source of revenue through the new BetKing league sponsorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A player who sought anonymity due to the fear of being victimized had this to say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span style=\"color:#0011ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;We have never received even a cent from the club. Since the Covid-19 set in the management does not talk to us. They do not care whether we eat or if our houses are locked. Personally I have no rent and my wife has even left my home. It is sad. We need some help.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NW4gAz5tKekariobangi-sharks-squad_fb8u0goe7t9e1b3j25i7ebwyp.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear why the Sharks players have not been paid yet the team is receiving the money from two companies. Our calls went unanswered as we tried reaching the C.e.o to a certain why the situation has persisted. Nevertheless , we are still trying to reach a reliable source in the management for a comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Nick Mwendwa, the founder of Kariobangi Sharks makes all the noise of big money &amp; BetKing sponsorship, we can authoritatively reveal that, Sharks players are still unpaid for almost half a year. The players have never received even a cent from the Sharks management since the league took a break due to the Covid-19 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}