Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

NLGRB's five-year Strategic Plan (FY2025/26-FY2029/30) reports that compliance improved from 68 percent to 79 percent and that 4,400 illegal gaming machines were confiscated in FY2025/26 alone. This was achieved through intensified collaboration among the Uganda Police Force, the Uganda Revenue Authority, the Financial Intelligence Authority and local governments. The pattern indicates a shift toward a more actively enforced posture rather than a light-touch one historically associated with the sector. This finding carries probable confidence, sourced through press reporting on the Strategic Plan rather than a directly retrieved primary enforcement bulletin, but the specificity of the confiscation and compliance figures supports treating it as a genuine escalation rather than a rhetorical claim. No individual licence-revocation action was evidenced this cycle; the enforcement signal centres on confiscation of illegal machines and improved compliance-rate tracking.