{"id":703,"date":"2022-12-09T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=703"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:48:33","slug":"shutdown-betting-companies-close-to-schools-dr-yaw-osei-adutum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/shutdown-betting-companies-close-to-schools-dr-yaw-osei-adutum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown Betting Companies Close to Schools- Dr. Yaw Osei Adutum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Yaw Osei Adutum, Minister of Education has pleaded with the Gaming Commission of Ghana to strengthen the efforts made to shutdown betting companies that go against the laws laid down to guide the operations of the gaming community of Ghana as provided by the Gaming Act 2006( Act 721).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sited some examples of betting companies being established close to educational centers to lure children into betting is something that has to come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He claims that this action would prevent children from engaging in gaming activities when the facilities are not close to their reach and this will also help in controling the influence of gaming on children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This act does not only influence children negatively but also goes against the law that governs the Gaming Act 2006 (Act 721).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Yaw Osei Adutum, Minister of Education has pleaded with the Gaming Commission of Ghana to strengthen the efforts made to shutdown betting companies that go against the laws laid down to guide the operations of the gaming community of Ghana as provided by the Gaming Act 2006( Act 721).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}