Gambling makes parents ignore children

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By MARJORIE FINKEO
CHILDREN are being neglected at home and their education rights ignored because parents spend most of their time gambling, officer in-charge of community policing and public relations Insp Patrina Dikin said.
Police and National Gaming Control Board (NGCB) have started a weeklong awareness programme in Port Moresby, especially in settlements and suburbs, to stop people from playing bingo and cards games like queen, 3leaf, bomb and last card which lead to an increase in crimes, she said.
Dikin said there were many results of gambling such as drinking and fighting, unproductivity, domestic violence because all the money has been used up in gambling, underage gambling and sometimes truancy.
“We will start making arrest of people who are caught gambling next time,” she said. “No excuses from people because the message is out now to the community.”
Dikin said gambling did not generate an income.
She urged the settlers to stop gambling and do other productive things in life to help themselves and live a better life.
The awareness programme will be carried out in the city to educate the city residents.

2 comments

  • That’s their wish of playing cards and bingo’s so there’s no reason to arrest people playing such gambling. They themselves control their lives and no one going to feed them if their money wasted on gambling. They themselves face the consequences of it. Police are there to stop the fight and corruption from grumblers and politicians. If their monies wasted on these things then they themselves know the solutions to solve their problems. If they want to beg people for money or their wantons or their wages or their sales or they want to go and steal from other people. Police to arrest who involve in killings, tribal fight, unnecessary roadblocks, damaging and destroying government and private properties or involve in violence and rape charge. If their money is wasted then police would not buy rice bag and give it to them or even buy power-bill and water-bill.

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