Kenyans both home and abroad took to twitter to express their anger at one of the country’s sport betting company, SportPesa, for sponsoring one of England’s premiership club, Hull City FC. The club via their Twitter account announced that SportPesa is now their official sponsor.

SportPesa is a really popular betting platform in the country and they have gained prominence of late thanks to their sponsorship deals with various entities in sports. Locally they sponsor the Premier League, the Kenya Rugby Union (recently) and a while ago, they announced that they are now sponsors of the hugely popular English football club, Arsenal. They have made another move on the English football scene as Hull FC announced on Twitter that SportPesa is now their official sponsor.

The deal is apparently for three seasons and as the football club said on the Twitter account, it was their “most lucrative in the Club’s proud 112 year history.”