A young man known as Theophilus Morgan broke sports betting record in
Ghana after he won almost $12 million at a sports betting company,
SafariBet but the company has refused to pay him the amount he won and
has deleted all of his slips from his account after blocking his account
for several hours on the day he won.
Theophilus Morgan who has been betting for years now, would have been
the latest Millionaire in the country after his 24 match predictions all
blinked in ‘GREEN’ indicating that he had won, but unfortunately for
him, the company he placed his bet at Safaribet.com has decided not to
pay him the amount he won, with reasons that, he never won 220 slips
even though there is a clear evidence to prove that he actually won the
Ghc57 million.
Morgan placed an accumulator bet on 24 matches which had a total odd of
261,833. He placed a Ghc1 bet on this accumulator which had a potential
win of Ghc261,833. Morgan then placed this accumulator bet 220 times,
meaning he spent a total of Gh220 cedis.
His predictions comprised of games from EPL, Champions League, Italy
Serie A, and even Europa League. He placed a long bet which run from 7th
November- 11th November 2018 and as he was expecting, all the 24 games
won, making all the 220 slips win automatically.
Ghbase.com has been told that, the whole of Nungua were jubilating when
he won, and was getting ready to withdraw his money only to realize his
account had been blocked by the betting company, Safaribet for obvious
reasons.
Morgan then stormed one of the stores of SafariBet at Labadi to find
out why his account has been blocked, and after several hours, his
account was enabled again, only for the betting company to reduce his
actual win from Ghc57 million to meager Ghc286,991.
The company had intentionally deleted 219 of his slips, so there’ no
trace of evidence to prove that he had won such amount. We believe that
was the main reason why they blocked his account, so they could alter
things.
Social media users had already started spreading the first screenshot
which showed the Ghc57 million in his account before the company made
the changes.
People think Morgan has been paid his Ghc57 million but in reality,
he’s not received even a pesewa of his winnings, as we’ve gathered that
Safaribet has only indicated that they would pay Ghc286,000 which is not
even close to 10% of the total winnings, he legitimately won.
In a second meeting today with Safaribet, Theophilus Morgan was hoping
to walk away with his money, but the company had said, there’s no
evidence to prove he won Ghc57 million (Of course, they’ve wiped all his
winning slips in his account, leaving only one) and that they will pay
him the Ghc286,000 on condition, that he signs an agreement that he won
just one slip and not 220 slips
It’s funny that a big company like Safari wants to act smart. Even if
you intend to pay him the Ghc286,000 why force him to sign an agreement?
Do they get people to sign agreements before they win?
It’s obvious, Safaribet knows, they are not doing the right thing and
want to find a way to silence him and so are offering him that peasant
amount when he should be getting his Ghc57 million.
As it stands now, Safaribet is not willing in anyway to pay him the
Ghc57 million and will only agree to pay the one slip of Ghc286,000 if
he will sign an agreement, to admit that he won only that amount and not
Ghc57 million.
Theophilus Morgan and his lawyers are shocked and have expressed
displeasure at how Safaribet wants to outsmart him, considering that,
each time, he loses his money while betting, no one calls him to sign
any agreement or anything of that sort.
There’s evidence to show that, Morgan has been losing bets several
times, by placing more than 200 slips in most occasions and he loses,
but in all of that, Safari never said, ‘oh you’ve lost soo much, come
for your money‘ so we are surprised someone has won and it’s becoming
hard for them to pay and then go ahead to delete his slips, to make it
look like it was just one slip he won.
We would follow this story keenly and share the update with you on whatever decision is reached.
