Concern Voters Movement (CVM)
The Concern Voters Movement (CVM) is calling for the urgent dismissal of the director general of the National Lottery Authority(NLA).
According to the group, the director general of NLA, Mr Osei Ameyaw implementations are irregular, inconsistent to the law of the game and his continues stay will send the ruling party to opposition.
[ads1]Speaking at a press conference today in Kumasi, the president of the CMV, Razak Kojo Opoku, said the NLA Director General does not have the capacity to run affairs of the NLA since some of the decisions he has made was illegal.
He said that, the NLA Director General ultimatum given to the banker to banker Lotto operators to register under NLA was taken by Mr Ameyaw himself without consultation of the National Lottery Authority board since the decision was taken at the time when there was no board while the lotto court which was also established recently to prosecute the banker to banker was also illegal.
The group also petition government to intercede and legalize banker to banker operations in Ghana as a means of creating significant revenue for the state as well as reducing the unemployment rate in the country.
The president of CVM, Razak Kojo Opoku stated that the operations of Banker to Banker was legal under the PNDC law 223 but the repel of that in 2006 renders the banker to banker as illegal under the National Act 2006, (Act 772), making National Lottery Authority(NLA) the monopoly of the lottery business in Ghana whiles this is not the case in developed countries.
He added that the continuous criminalization of Banker to Banker by NLA has contributed to the significant rise of unemployment in the country and loss of revenue mobilization to the state.
And therefore call on government to legalised the operation of the banker to banker operation in Ghana as a means of generation revenue for the state and creating jobs to reduce unemployment in the country and suspend of the full implementation of the National lotto Act 206 (Act 722) and the lottery regulation, 2008 (L.I 1948) indefinitely.
He noted that, the banker to banker has the potential of creating more jobs in the country.