President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has entreated the National Lottery Authority (NLA) to ensure that the lottery and betting space is sanitized to prevent underage persons from engaging in such activities.
He admonished the authority to enforce stringent measures in its quest to become the blueprint of lottery in Africa.
“I urge you also to implement stringent policies on responsible gaming, chiefly to prevent minus and under-age persons from patronizing your games and to help sanitise the lottery and betting space. The Ghanaian people are expectant of reforms that will help you live up to your vision of becoming the organisation of choice and blueprint for lottery in Africa,” President Akufo-Addo said during the 60th-anniversary celebration of NLA on December 9, 2022, in Accra.
The President further charged the NLA to ensure that patrons of lottery games receive a true reflection of the daily results published, imploring them to exercise the highest form of transparency and integrity.
“As an institution tasked with revenue generation, I will implore you to ensure that you exercise the highest form of transparency and integrity in the conduct of your draws to uphold the confidence that the public continues to have in you”.
“The onus to achieve this does not only lie in your ability to generate revenue for the government and give back to society but, more importantly, in ensuring that the Ghanaians who play your lottery games receive a true reflection of the daily results published,” the President expressed.