Hassan Ayariga, the founder of the All People’s Congress (APC), remarked that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has shifted Ghana’s landscape towards a culture of gambling.
During an interview on Starr Chat with Bola Ray, Ayariga elaborated on how this phenomenon has progressed to the extent where national television stations actively promote betting on their channels.
“Now that they have turned our country into a gambling state.Because every corner of the country and most of the TV stations are advertising betting. Our future leaders,who are supposed to be doctors, engineers,and professors, are not gamblers.
“It is a very serious addition and a bad one. So if you don’t have a way to show your children where to go, you turn them into gamblers,” He said.
The founders of the APC also voiced concerns about the NPP’s decision to offer tax incentives as a means to promote gambling within the country.
“You have even admitted that you are going to give them 10 percent tax on betting. Our constitution forbids gambling. Go and read the constitution.
“But when you have a government that has no focus and no alternative to change the lives of its citizens, it allows them to flow like water with no direction,” he added.
