Senate Threatens To Shutdown Bet9ja 'For Non-Remittance Of Dues' To Nigerian Government.

The Senate Committee on Youth and Sports on Tuesday threatened to order the shutdown of Bet9ja office if the company failed to honour its invitation for a second time.

Speaking on the floor of the house during the verification of loto companies with license to operate in Nigeria, Sen. Obinna Ogba (PDP, Ebonyi), Chairman of the Committee, said it was unfortunate that Bet9ja refused to honour the committee’s invitation.

He instructed the clerk of the house to write the popular betting site again, threatening that failure to honour the House's invitation for the third time will earn the betting site permanent closure.

“Clerk, write to Bet9ja again. If they did not honour our invitation, we will ask the National Lottery Commission to seal their offices,” he said.

According to him, the Senate is making efforts aimed at assisting the Lottery Commission to generate money for the Federal Government.

”We want to see bet9ja. They can’t run away,” he said.

The chairman explained that the verification followed series of complaints against the betting companies, adding that ”some don’t even have offices while others have not been making remittances to the government.”
”Some got the licences but they are not operating. The new regulation only give them one year to start operations,” he noted.

Meanwhile, about 20 other betting companies appeared before the committee for the verification exercise.

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Senate wan begin chop from bet9ja too

Oga senators dem ooo make una leave our office abeg.

If una wan follow chop, e no hard just carry 2m go play 2 odds and double your cash. it's as simple as that...come back and thank me later!!!

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That thing is a cankerworm. It is better to be a security man, beggar, house help, or bricklayer than to go into sports betting. What senate should close down is bet9ja virtual football league (VFL). They should leave the real life own for us i.e the traditional sports betting. What we need in this country, is technical schools. For those that want to learn any trade; hair dressing, handset repair, fashion design, iron bending, generator repair, barbing. Appreciate Training Centre (ATC) will be a national technical school, located in every state in Nigeria. Students of this special school, will have school uniforms and have proper training equipment and environment. In 2019, I tried to apply to tony elumelu foundation for this but I wasn't selected, for reasons best known to them. Secondly, there are no access to government loans, for S.M.E businesses. I have experienced all this things before;
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