Betika Faces DCI Probe Over Alleged 29.5 million Safaricom Data Breach

The May 13, 2026, High Court judgment in Constitutional Petition E095 of 2026 did not merely settle a civil dispute between a wronged citizen and Safaricom. It detonated a legal and regulatory bomb directly beneath Kenya’s dominant betting empire, Shop and Deliver Limited, trading as Betika, whose co-founders George Mburu and Chris Mwirigi are named in the Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ forensic analysis of WhatsApp communications that is now embedded in the High Court record as established judicial fact. Read more.