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A JoyNews investigation has uncovered the loss of over $10 million in the procurement of Point of Sale (POS) devices for the National Lottery Authority (NLA).
In the documentary, the team gathered evidence that the contract for the supply of 30,000 POS devices for the NLA should have cost less than half of the contract sum of $25 million.
According to information available, Osei Ameyaw, the Director-General of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) had written to the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) on 25th October 2018, and argued for the NLA to be allowed to sole-source the 30,000 Nexgo N5 Smart Point Of Sales Terminals for the NLA.
After approval was given, the purchase ended up being padded by over US$10million, implying the NLA boss and high-ups may have creamed off the huge amount of money from the padded purchase.
Nov. 18, 2020
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