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Nairobi \u2014 The Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) has suspended gambling advertisements across all media platforms for 30 days.<\/em><\/p>\n Accordingto the board’s chairperson Jane Makau, some gambling promoters are increasingly mischaracterizing gambling as a legitimate investment opportunity and a shortcut to wealth creation.<\/p>\n She observed that this occasions adverse socioeconomic consequences, with<\/p>\n devastating effects on individuals, families, and the broader community.<\/p>\n “Of particular concern is…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) has suspended gambling advertisements across all media platforms for 30 days. Accordingto the board’s chairperson Jane Makau, some gambling promoters are increasingly mischaracterizing gambling as a legitimate investment opportunity and a shortcut to wealth creation. She observed that this occasions adverse socioeconomic consequences, with devastating effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[51245,258,256,10081,6727,6877,6192,14085,4688,430,4959,257,21515,254,10452],"class_list":["post-197042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-advertisements","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-betting","tag-board","tag-control","tag-days","tag-gambling","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-media","tag-news","tag-platforms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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