New bill seeks to restrict daytime gambling in Kenya

The Nairobi County Assembly is considering whether to restrict gambling during the daytime in Kenya

The Nairobi County Assembly is considering whether to bound gambling during the daytime in Kenya.

The Nairobi City County Betting, Lotteries and Gaming (Amendment) Bill 2021, sponsored past South group B MCA Waithera Chege, wants to protect working human hours by restricting gaming betwixt 6am and 8pm.

Ms Waithera commented: “I have observed the trading operations of betting and gaming establishments inward the county for a patch now. I believe something must follow through to curtail the hours spent in these establishments by our early days if we are to unafraid our futurity as a county.

“I shall follow proposing that the county and National Licensing Board bound the operating hours of these establishments so as to assist protect productive hours among the citizenry and avoid wastage of clip past some of our early days who are sadly now addicted to gaming and spend a lot of clip at these establishments.”

The proposal’s take aim is to also regulate roving betting and to ban publicizing within the neighborhood of betting and gaming locations.

Data from a study made past US-based search company, Geopoll, shows that 76% of immature Kenyans had intermeshed inwards gaming at to the lowest degree one time as of March 2017. (The appraise took into considerateness offspring gamblers from Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.)

The appraise also indicated that, compared to millennials from other sub-Saharan counties, Kenyan young gamblers have got placed to a greater extent bets (most of them on football) and expend an average of $50 monthly.

According to the answers of the participants, publicizing had an of import share to that heights percentage, as the juvenility began seeing betting as a way of life of making tight money.