A civil society group, Good Governance Advocacy Group Ghana (GGAGG), is demanding the immediate cancellation of what it calls an “illegal exclusive license” granted to KGL Technology Limited by the National Lotteries Authority (NLA).
In a statement issued on Friday, June 13, GGAGG called on NLA Managing Director, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, to initiate an independent forensic audit into all contracts, transactions, and liabilities involving the authority and KGL.
The group accused the NLA of breaching the National Lotto Act (Act 722), specifically citing violations of Sections 2(2), 5(1), and 15.
“We are calling on the current Managing Director of the NLA to take urgent and public steps to cancel the illegal exclusive license granted to KGL, restore legal compliance with Act 722, and re-establish the NLA as a sovereign state institution, free from private capture and political interference,” the statement said.
According to GGAGG, KGL entered the lottery sector with its own product, Lucky 3, but subsequently moved to market the 5/90 lottery game—traditionally under the exclusive mandate of the NLA—in direct contravention of the law. The group said the move had previously attracted sanctions from the NLA, yet the arrangement continued unchecked.
“The entire arrangement is illegal and amounts to a privatised takeover of a public mandate. It has not been sanctioned by any legislative reform, nor by a public competitive process,” the group stressed.
GGAGG warned that failure to reverse the alleged irregularities could erode the legitimacy of the NLA.
“End the KGL monopoly. Restore the NLA. Or shut it down,” the statement concluded.
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