The Finance Minister respectfully needs to get his facts right about the benefits Ghanaian taxpayers received from the lottery business.
Ghanaian taxpayers, through the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), received over GHS 153 million from KGL on April 16, 2026, for the 2025 financial year alone.
Again, taxpayers, through the National Lottery Authority (NLA), benefited from over GHS 173 million from KGL.
As Finance Minister, he needs to be interested in understanding how the NLA received GHS 173 million from KGL, while the Ministry of Finance received only GHS 10 million in dividends from the NLA.
For the records, other 29 private lotto operators licensed by National Lottery Authority(NLA) also paid GHS 44.9 million to the NLA in 2025. I sincerely believe that these 29 licensed private lotto operators equally pay taxes to the Ghana Revenue Authority(GRA).
Therefore, strictly speaking, the Finance Minister has engaged in misinformation on this particular subject matter. It is NEVER TRUE that this is the first time the taxpayers are benefitting from lottery business since 2018.
The major problem of NLA is wastage of financial resources. It does not make sense for NLA to use over 90% of its income on Good Causes Foundation & other CSR activities and pays only GHS 10 million dividend to the Ministry of Finance.
It is not necessarily about reviewing of agreements but it is about tackling wastage of financial resources at the NLA as a resetting government. The more NLA receives the more they used the money on needless internal operations and activities at the detriment of the taxpayers.
