Father must have money and can provide for his family. He Wouldn't act that way if they don't have enough. Or maybe the father is really a disciplinarian and wanted the boy to stop gambling as well.
That one hell of a disciplinarian the father must be. 38,000,000 naira is like 51,000 dollars if we convert that. Now that's a good some to start something good for almost anyone who hangs around betshops looking gor luck to escape the poor living condition in Nigeria and get some test of the good life as an average or middle class citizen.
I wonder who is this young man. Am sure betting is 18+which very much designates him for an adult and ought not to be living with the family. If he ain't sure if he should have been living with the family, this was a good sign to start living out and being his own person. I think that would be the case in the end.
Unfortunately, we don't know the reason why the father acted like that in the first place after knowing that his son won a staggering $51,000 in gambling because the story was not released in a full detailed version and was a kind of short. Actually, I never had a story that was reported like this where they leave the readers a lot more questions in their head rather than understanding the story and why such behaviors have occurred instead of being thankful to the fact.