New proposals allow families to request gaming regulator to bar their kin from gambling.
By
John Mutua
Business Reporter
Nation Media Group
Betting firms in Kenya can now freeze accounts of gamblers who are in financial distress under new proposals that also allow families to request the gaming regulator to bar their kin from gambling.
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Kenya families will be able to ask the country's gambling regulator to bar relatives from betting under sweeping new rules.
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