Accra, Oct 14, GNA- Keed Ghana Limited and KGL Technology Limited are two separate entities, a statement issued by Dr .Razak Kojo Opoku, former Public Relations Manager of NLA has said.
He added that recent claims by a media outfit was misplacing and spreading of falsehood describing their report on the NLA-KGL partnership as misleading and unprofessional.
According to Dr. Opoku, Keed Ghana Limited was fined GHC 10 million by the NLA for piloting its *959# platform without the appropriate 5/90 Online Lottery License Agreement.
The payment of the penalty, he said was a lawful and appropriate decision by both Keed Ghana Limited and the NLA.
He explained that after the payment of the penalty, KGL Technology Limited subsequently took over operations from Keed Ghana Limited-a transition he said was transparent and legitimate.
Dr. Opoku challenged the accusers to answer key questions regarding other companies that allegedly operated online lottery platforms illegally without the required authorisation.
He asked how much Alpha Lotto Limited paid to the NLA for operating the 5/90 lottery via *896# for 11 months and how much Onassis Lotto paid for using *859# to operate an unauthorised 5/90 online lottery.
“How much did the operators of www.theb2blotto.com pay for running the 5/90 lottery online without a license?
He argued that addressing these questions would help expose what he described as “selective and unbalanced reporting” by the media outfit in its investigations into the NLA-KGL arrangement.
“Their agenda is not agending,” Dr. Opoku stated humorously, suggesting that the publication’s attempt to discredit the NLA-KGL partnership has failed.
Dr. Opoku maintained that the NLA’s collaboration with KGL Technology Limited had been beneficial to the Authority and to Ghana’s lottery industry, emphasising that the facts showed their reports were based on flawed assumptions and factual inaccuracies.
GNA
Edited by George-Ramsey Benamba