Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery appoints new Betting Control Board chairman

NAIROBI: Businessman Anthony Kimani Kung'u has been appointed chairman of the Betting Control and Licensing Board. He succeeds Musili Wambua whose term ended last month. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery made the appointment in a Gazette notice dated January 22.

Mr Kung'u will serve for three years. His appointment ends wrangles over the position. The Association of Human Resource Practitioners in Kenya had contested Mr Wambua's appointment on grounds that Wambua could not hold two public offices.

Wambua is an associate dean of law at the University of Nairobi's School of Law. Kung'u will be in control of the Sh5 billion betting, lotteries and gaming industry.