The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey has led a team of Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) to pay a courtesy call on the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammi Awuku.
The visit was to have a good working relationship between the NLA and the Assemblies within the metropolis.
Mr Awuku commended the Regional Minister for his initiatives and efforts in making Accra Clean.
“We are pleased to have you visit us today. We work with various stakeholders in our industry and we hope that we can have a good Working relationship as you work to make Accra clean. There are a lot we can collaborate on thus the NLA can support the Assemblies with our widows might as our people operate within the remit of the law.”
He further reiterated the challenges facing NLA and illegal operators in the Region and called on the MMCEs to help them root out the illegal operators in the system.
“There are few challenges we encounter in the area of Tudu, Ayawaso and some parts of Greater Accra and I will apply to our MMDCEs to help us root out all illegal operators in the Region”, he said.
Mr Awuku further stated; “NLA and our good course foundation, we support culture and a lot of invitation come on us to support some festival and we don’t know which of the festivals are big or strong so going forward management have decided some of this challenge will be channel to the RCC accordingly. We want to support the new Namei but it must be managed properly.”
He appealed to the Minister to have a dialogue on the demolition of lotto operator’s structures to see how best the problem can be resolved amicably.
Hon. Henry Quartey, on his part, emphasized his unrelenting desire to making the Greater Accra Region work again, hence reiterating his promise to President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo.
“Indeed we have enjoyed tremendous support from other stakeholders and by the grace of God operation clean your frontage law has been passed and crossed all the 29 MMDCEs and its municipality.”
He also iterated that “currently we have about 1200 undergoing training to be deployed into the assemblies to help with the implementation of the new by laws”.
Hon. Quartey also suggested to the NLA boss to think about rebranding their lotto kiosk in order not for their operators not to be affected by the demolition exercise.
