Director-General of the National Lottery Association (NLA), Sammy Awuku, was among the dignitaries that graced this year’s World Lottery Summit.
The event was held from October 16 to 20, 2022, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Announcing his participation in the event, the NLA boss also commended the World Lottery Association President, Rebecca Paul, for her exemplary leadership exhibited so far.
“It has been an amazing gathering of all the Industry Players from over 100 countries committed to Responsible Gaming and Good Causes at the World Lottery Summit in Vancouver. Congratulations to President Rebecca Paul and her reelected executives as they continue to steer the affairs of the World Body for another term.
He further announced that the WLA President will grace the occasion to climax the NLA’s 60th anniversary celebration, scheduled to take place from December 7 to 10, this year.
Mr Sammy Awuku confirmed this on his Facebook wall with pictures of himself, that the WLA President and other dignitaries who attended the World Lottery Summit held in Vancouver.
“The NLA is grateful that for the first time the World Lottery Association President will be visiting Africa to Grace our 60th Anniversary and the African Lotteries Association Conference in Accra in December”, Sammy Awuku said.
The World lottery Summit brought together industry players from over 100 countries across the globe to, amongst other things, take stock of the various member countries’ programmes, regional reports, suspensions, and expulsions from the Association.
The summit is held every two years, but the World Lottery Association could not hold the 2020 event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Director-General of the NLA, Sammy Awuku, and Dr. George Gyamfi-Osew, the immediate past Director of Operations of the Authority, represented Ghana at the summit.
At this year’s summit, Ghana’s NLA was highly commended for ensuring responsible gaming and pragmatic steps against the illegal lottery.
NLA remains the leader in the lottery business in the sense that it has the legal mandate to regulate the industry. In addition to this autonomous role, the main objective of NLA is to raise revenue to run its affairs and to pay whatever is left to the government to support developmental needs or projects in the country.
Against this background, NLA undoubtedly is a national asset, but this feat did not come with ease. The NLA brand was built with solid integrity as its core value while other values such as respect, excellence, accountability, leadership, and teamwork equally complemented the success story.
The NLA has spread across the sixteen regions in Ghana and continues to expand its tentacles to every nook and cranny. The expansion project is duly on course under the current leadership of Mr Samuel Awuku, the Director General of the authority.
It marked its 60th anniversary in September. However, an event is expected to be held in December to climax the anniversary celebration.
Source: The Independent Ghana