In March of this year, candidate for the hotly contested National Lotteries Commission (NLC) Chairpersonship, Dr Muthuhadini Madzivhandila, informed the DA and myself of his intention to seek urgent relief from the High Court if we failed to apologise for a statement, we released on 13 March entitled “DA rejects ANC's recommendation for NLC chairperson”. We released this statement in light of the concerns raised by the Organisation Against Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) in a public submission to the Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition.
On the 19th September, 2017, in a press conference held at Kumasi in the Ashanti region the Founder and President of Concerned Voters Movement (CVM) Mr. Razak Kojo Opoku who is now the PRO of NLA, in a 10 page press release sought to point out the positives the Nana Addo’s government will benefit in terms of job creation from the legalisation of banker to banker operations which was a key campaign message in the 2016 elections ie jobs for the youth.
He posited emphatically at paragraph 17 of his press release that, “ Justification for the Legalization of Banker-to-Banker Lottery Operations in Ghana:
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DA clarifies statement objecting to the nomination of Dr Muthuhadini Madzivhandila as NLC Chair
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On 12 March 2021, the DA published a statement objecting to the nomination of Dr Muthuhadini Madzivhandila to be appointed as chair of the National Lotteries Commission (“NLC”).
In the statement, the DA said that Dr Madzivhandila “was the director of a non-profit company which received R900 000 from the NLC and that it needed to be determined whether or not he had declared this prior to his appointment to the board.”
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