The Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) Samuel Awuku has said the management and board have put in efforts to deal with fraudsters who send unnecessary messages to Ghanaians claiming to have lotteries winning numbers.
According to him they are dealing with a whole organised group of decorators who are motivated by evil and do not have a limit on who they want to scam.
Me as Director General, sometimes they can create a platform add you to it, you exit they add you and tell you they can give you winning numbers. We have reported the matter to the NCA and the national security and we have made some tremendous effort in dealing with this.
He made this revelation on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 when he appeared before the Public Account Committee (PAC) to answer some questions on work done by the Auditor General and pointed out that, eighteen (18) people were arrested last year and some are also standing trial at various stages; but it is an everyday matter dealing with the their dictators and believes, if there is one agency which is going to benefit from the sim card registration is NLA, he added.
This issue came up when the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Samuel George Natty, asked a human interest story as to how the NLA is dealing with fraudsters who send messages and call Ghanaians to give the NLA winning numbers.
In addition, he told the committee that those who send message and call cannot tell where the person is operating from. “One of the people we arrested had about five hundred sim cards; they send the message and take off the sim card. We believe that these crusade should not be left to the NLA alone.
And added that they have been embarking on sensitization programmes to demystify the perception that there is strong room where winning numbers are produce from, it does not exist, so if you recall we have started an exercise; we were at the Kwahu East to perform live draw.
In addition we have been to cape coast festival last year and they have been to the Volta Region last year for a live draw.
To us in NLA its a game of chance, but to others its a game of skill. They think they have some magical powers to work out one or two sometimes when you are driving in town they will tell you your car number dropped.
For instance in December 8 and 9 of last year president Kuffours birthday dropped twice and there are times that we lose, so its a game of chance and we need the support of MPs to help with the education that today its a game of chance.
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The drain which begins at the star oil filling station on the mankessim – Kumasi highway and passes behind the Asabee market to join the Mankessim Cape coast highway is heavily choked due to a cocktail of activities such as dumping of both biodegradable and non-biodegradable refuse into the drain whilst some use it as a place of convenience and this has resulted in the growing of shrubs and various plants that block the free flow of water.
It is the hope of MP that people who live closer to the drain will help prevent the dumping of refuse as well as using it as a place of convenience especially after the desilting/dredging activities to allow for the free flow of water and prevent any flooding at the onset of the rain. Work is expected to be completed within 7 days.
“In conformity with the established framework for election observation, we are working very closely with the ECOWAS Commission to ensure the scrupulous implementation of the provisions of Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, relative to the holding of elections. Our Observers will be available to provide the necessary support to the Joint ECOWAS Mission, in anticipation of free, fair and transparent elections in the various countries,” Tunis said.
The facilities include a fully furnished maternity ward for the Yoggu Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound, and one at Tali. The facilities both had a delivery room, staff offices, a store room, and other auxiliary facilities with essential medical equipment.
The two CHPS compounds, since its establishment years back, had been without a decent maternity ward and this has affected maternal health services in the communities.
Meanwhile, the Ahmed Ibrahim and Confort Doyo Ghanasah retained their positions as First Deputy Minority Second Deputy Whips respectively.
“We wish to take this opportunity to indicate our intention to embark on nationwide road shows to foster deeper understanding of this matter and rally Ghanaians to demand a more favourable resolution of the unprecedented economic crisis the Bawumia-led economic management team has plunged us into”.
“Honourable Chair, it is a simple matter; and it is a very simple matter; and truly it is a very simple matter. And what is it? Honourable Chair, before I became IGP nobody prophesized about me, now I’m IGP and everybody is prophesying about me; I have no problem about it because I’m a public figure. But why should it be such that you found something; God has revealed to you and you want to share with me, you have to make it a showmanship and tell the whole country that I’m about to die?”
At its first sitting on Monday, January 16, 2023, the Chairman of the Committee, Dr. James Klutse Avedzi and the members of the Committee invited the Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, Directors from the Finance Ministry and Officials from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to answer queries cited in the Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Sector Accounts of Ghana (General Government) for the year ended 31st December, 2020.
The Committee also considered the report of the Auditor-General on the Consolidated Statement of the Foreign Exchange Receipts and Payment of the Bank of Ghana for the year ended 31st December, 2020.