{"id":384218,"date":"2011-04-21T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/50-year-old-ghanaian-cleaner-in-canada-wins-16m-lottery\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:25:09","slug":"50-year-old-ghanaian-cleaner-in-canada-wins-16m-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/50-year-old-ghanaian-cleaner-in-canada-wins-16m-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"50-Year-Old Ghanaian Cleaner In Canada Wins $16m Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>A 50-year-old Ghanaian who works as a cleaner in Toronto is now a multimillionaire. John Sarkodie Addo made 16.6 million dollars overnight by winning the top prize in the Lotto Max drawn on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation says John Addo checked his ticket Saturday at a local store and found he had one of the three winning tickets in Friday&#8217;s 50 million dollar draw. Mr. Addo who is said to have gone to Canada 20 years ago, has been working seven days a week for an industrial cleaning company to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>He says his friends teased him about his weekly ticket purchase, but he always believed he would win one day. &#8220;My coworkers would often tease me about my weekly ticket purchase, but I had faith I was going to win,&#8221; said Addo. &#8220;When it really happened, I couldn&#8217;t stop crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He plans to buy a home and visit his family in Ghana with his winnings, and also wants to invest some of the money. &#8220;I will definitely go back and visit my family now,\u201d he said Tuesday at the OLG prize centre. \u201cMy first priority though will be to buy a home of my own and invest my money properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Addo says he couldn&#8217;t stop crying when he found out that he had won. &#8220;I immediately went straight home and lay down for a while to think about it,&#8221; he said in a statement released by the OLG on Tuesday. &#8220;I could never have imagined winning this much money in my life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d65bget.media_11-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A 50-year-old Ghanaian who works as a cleaner in Toronto is now a multimillionaire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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