Senate Committee on Youth and Sports on Tuesday threatened to shutdown operations of Bet9ja office if the company failed to honour its invitation for a second time.
Sen. Obinna Ogba, who is the chairman of the Committee made this known following failure of the Management of the company to appear before the Committee.
The Senate Committee is embarking on verification of loto companies with license to operate in Nigeria.
Ogba said it was unfortunate that Bet9ja refused to honour the committee’s invitation.
According to him, Clerk, write to Bet9ja again. If they did not honour our invitation, we will ask the National Lottery Commission to seal their offices.
We want to see bet9ja. They can’t run away,” he said.
He said the Senate is making efforts aimed at assisting the Lottery Commission to generate money for the Federal Government.
The chairman explained that the verification followed series of complaints against the betting companies, adding that ”some don’t even have offices while others have not been making remittances to the government.”
”Some got the licences but they are not operating. The new regulation only give them one year to start operations,” he noted.
