Casinos do not manufacture consumer goods, expand agricultural output, or build physical infrastructure. Instead, they absorb disposable income from local pockets, take their margins, and repatriate the surplus offshore to foreign shareholders, all while leaving the host country to deal with the heavy social fallout of household debt and addiction.

In the petition, Bwowe had contended that Nakawa West is a non-existent constituency and asked the court to cancel the nominations of Ssenyonyi, Happy Nasasira, Herbert Anderson Burora, Ephraim Okuye, Vincent Norbert Okumu, Wilberforce Kyambadde and Rwamiti Apuuli, and declare him the only validly nominated candidate to be elected unopposed.