Rescue lotto business from wayward NLA-CVM leader spits fire

The Management of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) has been slammed for operating an incompetent administration.

Rather than streamlining and providing the needed regulation to govern the lotto business and other gaming activities, the NLA is accused of trying to stifle individual and corporate initiatives by forcing down a compulsory registration mechanism on lotto marketers and retailers across the country.

Addressing a hugely patronized press conference in Kumasi yesterday, Razak Kojo Opoku, Leader and Founder of Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), a pressure group chastised the management of NLA for seeking to ostracize some notable groups from the lotto industry.

This, he mentioned is contrary to what the President, Nana Addo Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stands for since it is clear the NPP government is a supporter of private and individual initiatives.

DETAILS:
Giving details to back his claims, the CVM leader said the NLA had devised this proposed registration exercise to crowd out members of the Banker to Banker from the lotto business.

Though admitting that the Banker to Banker business has been outlawed by the PNDC Law 223 in 2006, Mr Opoku argued that the NLA should rather be aiming at getting all these private lotto operators on board its activities.

According to him, there were about 1million people engaged in the Banker to Banker business in the country, adding that their operations had provided employment opportunities for many in the country.

He, therefore, cautioned the NLA to apply tact and wisdom in their administration so as to allow lotto operators to freely conduct their businesses while formulating a framework to get their revenue into government coffers.

PETITION:
In a chat with the Ghanaian Observer Newspaper later at the press conference, Mr Opoku recounted several letters and petitions his movement has written to the NLA to seek to sit with them to discuss the ongoing upheaval in the lotto business.

However, he mentioned no single letter had been replied to by the Management of the NLA, an action he interpreted as gross disrespect to his organization and many of its believers across the nation.

The CVM leader commended the swift nature the Presidency responded to its letter and mentioned that the Chief Justice, Mrs Sophis Akuffo had acknowledged receipt of their complaint in a letter to the CVM outfit.

He, therefore, charged the President to take a closer look at the management of the NLA and ensure it rather makes it a body that will provide regulation to the gaming industry but not a participant in the lottery business.

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