PRESIDENT NANA Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been urged to offer the needed support and encouragement to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Kofi Osei-Ameyaw.
Mr. Frank Adjei, Founder and Leader of the Ghana National Chamber of Licensed Banker to Banker Lotto Operators and Agents, who made the call, described Mr. Osei-Ameyaw as very efficient.
He made a similar appeal to the Ministry of Finance, stressing that with total support from the presidency, Mr. Osei-Ameyaw would change the face of lotto to help support the country’s economy within a short time.
“President Akufo-Addo and the Ministry of Finance should fully support Kofi Osei-Ameyaw to succeed at the National Lottery Authority”, Mr. Adjei stated at a press conference in Kumasi on Tuesday.
According to Mr. Adjei, who presides over 200 lotto agents, 170 lotto sub-agents and over 150,000 lotto writers in Ghana, (which is the largest Banker to Banker operator in Ghana), Mr. Osei-Ameyaw has proven that he has what it takes to take the lotto business to the highest level.
He particularly commended the NLA for introducing a new policy that mandates the payment of one million Ghana cedis as license fee by private lotto operators in Ghana, which has been approved by the NLA board.
“The Ghana National Chamber of Licensed Banker to Banker Lotto Operators and Agents, under the leadership of Frank Adjei (founder and leader), fully supports the license fee of one million Ghana cedis for private lotto operators, approved by the board of NLA”.
He therefore charged the NLA Board to introduce new measures to help arrest recalcitrant Ghanaian lotto operators, agents and writers, who are refusing to pay the license fees.
Mr. Adjei insisted that the new license fee policy would help the government to generate more revenue from the lotto sector and that would eventually contribute to the rapid and effective development of the country.
According to him, the new policy would also sanitize the lotto industry as illegal lotto operators would be weeded out of the system, thereby ensuring that lotto business in the country would be done legally.
Mr. Adjei also called for the immediate arrest of Nigerians, Chinese and other foreign nationals, who are operating lotto business in Ghana, especially the foreign nationals operating Banker to Banker, saying that their operations are illegal.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi