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UGANDA: Chuo Kikuu cha Makerere kimesema takriban Wanafunzi 1,000 wanaacha au kuachishwa Masomo kila mwaka kutokana na kupoteza Fedha za Ada wanazozitumia kwenye Michezo ya Kubashiri maarufu kama 'Kubeti'
Kauli hiyo imetolewa na Profesa Barnabas Nawangwe ambaye ni Makamu Mkuu wa Chuo Kikuu hicho ambaye amesema Chuo kililazimika kufanya tafiti kujua sababu za Wanafunzi wengi kushindwa kuendelea na masomo
Amesema "Uchunguzi wetu umeonesha kuwa kweli watu hao walikuwa wanaacha shule sio kwa sababu walishindwa kulipa ada. Walipata ada kutoka kwa wazazi wao lakini walitaka kuwekeza katika kamari ili kupata faida,”
Aidha kwa mujibu wa takwimu za #DriveResearch Sekta ya Michezo ya Kubashiri (Betting) duniani kote ilikadiriwa kuwa na thamani ya zaidi ya dola bilioni 235 (zaidi ya Tsh. Trilioni 599.25) mwaka 2022 huku ikiwa na Wacheza kamari takriban Milioni 176. Idadi hiyo inatajwa kuwa itafika Watu Milioni 210 mwaka 2025.
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At least 1000 students drop out of Makerere University annually after losing tuition fees to sports betting, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe, the Vice Chancellor has revealed.
Prof Nawangwe made the remarks on Tuesday, while presiding over the recognition and rewarding ceremony of College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS) 12 best performing graduates of 2024.
Prof Nawangwe said they conducted research after revelations that students drop out of the institution due to failure to pay tuition.
“Our investigations have shown that actually those people were dropping out not because they failed to pay fees. They got fees from their parents and wanted to invest in betting in order to get interest,” Prof Nawangwe said.
Nawangwe says it is, however, surprising that the same students hoodwink their parents and take them to the freedom square on graduation day yet they have never stepped in a lecture room.
“They ended up being broke and kept telling their parents stories. And parents don’t hear their names being read in the graduation booklet,” he said.
In May 2023, a Makerere University student self-kidnapped himself and cut off communication with parents, relatives and friends after he reportedly spent his tuition fees in a sports betting scheme.
Augustine Ssekajugo, the then 2nd year student of Dental Surgery left his rented room in Makerere-Kikoni and went for a hideout in Iganga District. It was not until police intensified the search where he was smoked from his hideout in Butama Village, Nakalama Sub County in Iganga District.
An exhaustive search that led to his arrest in Iganga established that the victim-turned suspect had rented a room where he was going to start coaching lessons.
Prof Nawangwe used the same event to discourage graduates against moving on the streets of Kampala claiming they are unemployed.
He instead advised them to move out anywhere in the world and work from there.
“The good thing is that the population in the rest of the world is going down everywhere in the world. It is only in Africa where the population is going up,” Prof Nawangwe said.
He added: “With the decrease in the population, there are many countries now where there is a big deficit of skilled workforce.”
The rewarding ceremony was a partnership between Makerere University, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and Prudential Uganda awarding the best graduates with cash prizes, mentorship and graduate training, scholarship for students to enroll for CPA.
Online Gambling
Gamblers online can wager on everything from sports and casino to politics & entertainment via online sportsbooks, casinos and poker sites using iPhones, android phones, or virtually any mobile device with a web-browser.The global online gambling market was valued at $90 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 10% between 2023 and 2032 to reach $370 billion [14].
Key Online Gambling Statistics:
- There are over 176 million active online gamblers and this figure could grow to 210 million by 2025 [15].
- Online sports betting apps and websites have 127.8 million users. This is up from 60.3 million in 2019 and is expected to grow to 156.9 million by 2025 [15].
- Online casinos have the second largest number of users with 94.1 million users representing a 62% increase since 2019 . This figure is expected to reach 112 million by 2025 [15].
- Desktop devices held a market share of 45% across online gambling in 2022 [14].
- Europe held the highest share of the online gambling market generating 41% of global revenue in 2022 [16].
- Online casinos dominated with a 52% global market share in 2022 [16].
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