Chief Justice inaugurates 11 lotto courts nationwide

Europa

June 6, 2017 12:33 PM

The move is to help ensure sanity in the lotto industry by facilitating the prosecution of all lotto-related offences.

The move is to ensure that lotto operators work within the framework of the lottery law.

The outgoing Chief Justice, Justice Georgina Theodora Woode, has inaugurated about 11 lotto courts across the country.

The courts include Circuit Courts one and eight in Accra, Circuit Courts B in Tema and Koforidua, Circuit Court 4 in Kumasi, Circuit Court one in Cape Coast, and Circuit Courts in Tarkoradi, Ho, Tamale and Wa.

In a statement read on her behalf at the inauguration ceremony in Accra, the Chief Justice said the courts will create awareness about the need for Ghanaians to avoid lottery activities that are unlawful.

She argued that the activities of some illegal private lotto operators are ruining the work of the National Lottery Authority.

“I have been assured by management of NLA that judges, who are assigned to these courts, will receive regular training to give them a better appreciation of the legal issues involved in illegal lotto operations so as to enable them to handle cases efficiently and impose sentences that commensurate with the offences,” she said.

On his part, the new Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Kofi Osei Ameyaw said the inauguration of the courts is to ensure that lotto operators work within the framework of the lottery law.

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