A former Public Relations Manager of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Razak Kojo Opoku, has strongly refuted recent media reports suggesting tension between the NLA and KGL Technology Limited over data submission requests.

He described the claims by The Fourth Estate and Sulemana Briamah as misleading and lacking professional and ethical grounding.

In a detailed statement issued on Tuesday, Mr. Opoku clarified that the NLA’s recent request for sales and revenue data for 2025 from KGL was part of the Authority’s routine administrative and reconciliation processes — not an investigation or sign of conflict.

According to him, on October 7, 2025, the NLA wrote formally to KGL requesting access to records, including revenue, winnings, and prize payments for the period January 1 to September 30, 2025, in line with contractual clauses 12.0 and 17.0.

The data was requested to support NLA’s operational review ahead of 2026.

KGL officially received the letter on October 13, 2025, and subsequently responded on October 17, 2025, requesting an extension of the submission deadline from October 10 to October 31, 2025, to allow for proper collation, verification, and auditing of the data.

“KGL never asked NLA to defer its request to 2026.

Asking for an extension within the same month and year cannot be described as a ‘pushback’,” Opoku stressed, dismissing The Fourth Estate’s characterisation of events as inaccurate.

He further asserted that KGL has consistently complied with all data and revenue submissions to both the NLA and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) since 2019, and that its operations are transparent and fully audited by internal and external auditors.

Mr. Opoku accused some insiders within the NLA of leaking confidential correspondence to journalists in breach of trust and the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989), particularly sections 10, 11, and 16, which govern confidentiality and disclosure restrictions.

He also emphasised that correspondence between NLA and its partners — including KGL, Lots Services Ghana Limited, Simnet Ghana Limited, and other collaborators — is a normal administrative practice, not evidence of wrongdoing.

“When did the exchange of letters between two institutions on agreed schedules become a crime?” he questioned, adding that both the NLA and KGL leadership are fully aligned on the data reconciliation process.

Mr. Opoku further urged journalists and civil society groups to focus on factual reporting and value-for-money scrutiny rather than what he described as “a fishing expedition” aimed at discrediting indigenous companies.

He challenged The Fourth Estate and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) to direct their attention to how much revenue NLA has received from KGL and other partners between January and September 2025 in the interest of public accountability.

Concluding, he reaffirmed KGL’s commitment to transparency, collaboration with regulators, and timely data submission to all relevant state institutions.

“There is absolutely nothing KGL can hide from the NLA, GRA, Bank of Ghana, NCA, or the telecom operators. The processes are super transparent to all stakeholders,” he said.