In my opinion, perowsnal bans on casinos and gambling will never work, in fact it will make the problem worse, people will look for clandestine places to have fun, also knowing that casino games are for adults, there should be no problem, everyone is responsible for their actions, in that sense, gambling addiction will never be stopped, what a Government that does such a thing can achieve is that everything is ruined and generates more problems than solutions.
Governments already knows this as impossible, but they will always keep on attacking for those who are not complying to paying their regulatory tax being part of their IGR in gambling sectors, we are living in a freedom era, all these shouldn't be a challenge anymore, some gamblers also have been making it more difficult to see gambling as what is all about fun, with their way of irresponsible gambling nature, all these are part of the reason the government will always take and use against us in gambling, but they still never wish its stopped, because they mostly earn from it.
That last statement of yours reflect to how government really seeing how gambling works, they if not all but most of those corrupt officials are really earning from this industry, they knew that it's hard to fought against gambling industry as there are many gamblers that will look for on their own ways to keep playing, so instead of banning or stopping corrupt officials will pretend that they are against it but the actions is different knowing that there's a huge amount of money behind this business.