Former presidential aide and Social media activist, Reno Omokri has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lay a ban on all the gambling platforms operating in Nigeria, saying gambling is one of the integral parts of the country’s Economic sabotage.

Mr Omokri said this in a statement released today via his official X account ( formerly known as Twitter).

In his statement, the former aide to Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan suggests that President Tinubu can immediately improve most of the Nigerians’ economic conditions and make the Naira grow if he lays a ban on sports betting apps from the App Store and revokes the licenses of any physical sports betting operators in Nigeria.

He stressed that, presently, there is an epidemic of gambling in Nigeria and it is seriously destroying Nigerian youths, adding that, according to the National Lottery Trust Fund, $1 billion is spent on gambling daily in Nigeria.

Read the full statement below;

“President Tinubu can immediately improve the economic conditions of most Nigerians and make the Naira grow by issuing an Executive Order authorising the Nigerian Communications Commission to ban sports betting apps from the App Store of any GSM Internet Service Provider in Nigeria and revoking the licenses of any physical sports betting operators in Nigeria. It makes better sense than Buhari’s draconian #TwitterBan.

There is such an epidemic of gambling in Nigeria and it is destroying Nigerian youths. $1 billion is spent on gambling daily in Nigeria, according to the National Lottery Trust Fund. Please fact-check me. The average Nigerian spends $15 daily on sports betting and other types of gambling, with the vast majority of that amount leaving our economy and going to places like Russia, South Africa, and Europe. The Naira can never sustain its rally under such circumstances.

This is scary. How much is our GDP that we are pissing it away like that? More money is leaving Nigeria through gambling than is coming in. Buhari was thoroughly useless in that he was an anti-intellectual who was led by the nose by his former recharge card seller turned overnight billionaire nephew, Tunde Sabiu. But Tinubu is an accountant. He must know that this parasitic economic sabotage will destroy Nigeria if left unchecked.

A lot of the petty crime in Nigeria is caused by youths seeking money, by any means, to fund their gambling habit. It would be irresponsible for a first-class accountant like Tinubu not to act on such a matter as threatening to our national security as this gambling epidemic.

Just imagine millions of able-bodied youths waking up daily not to do any productive work but to waste away their lives online and offline at sports betting shops. And we have a government in place led by a first-class graduate in economics?”

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