Legendary Comedian and now politician Thomas Sipalo has challenged betting companies to put value on Zambian Artists who they engage to advertise their companies.

In a post shared on his Official Facebook page, he share his disappointment at some betting companies who has taken advantage on the local artists who they under charge for their services.

Below is what he wrote:

I think Betting companies are taking advantage, abusing our Zambian artistes and turning them into sales agents instead of brand ambassadors as they should be…
Can Fally, Davido or Diamond accept to do a tip like endorsement before getting a lump sum upon signing the contract?…🤔
The highest paid artistes on endorsements get about a K20,000 others even 6 pin after 8 episodes of advertisements on his or her page, that’s not a fixed amount it depends with how many clients his promo code will attract to bet, if you dont attract much clients on your code you can even end the month with a thank you, now who foots the production bill?
For arguments sake , if 8 episodes is K20,000 meaning each episode is K2,500 then how much is production cost, camera, editing, script, crew, profit etc per production?
Mentioning a product as an artist is endorsement enough to attract a fee but alas, as if mentioning a Betting company isn’t enough, one need to produce a video and ask his or her followers to bet using their promo code names, what if your follower get attracted to bet but forget your artist promo code , who benefits?
To me this is a bad deal 🤝 let artistes be paid a once of reasonable amount as brand ambassadors either clients come or not, they need to be paid for endorsement upon signing the contracts not only to be paid when people use their codes to bet its not a duty of an artiste to beg for clients to bet but to market the product…
Lets add value to the arts bane…🚶🏽‍♂️
Thomas Sipalo,
X-comic,

kombonipresident