MFWA requests for full copy of NLA-KGL committee report from Presidency

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has filed a Right to Information (RTI) request to the office of the President of Ghana, requesting for a copy of the full report by the Committee set up by the Presidency to review the contracts between the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and KGL Technology Limited.

The RTI request letter, dated April 22, 2026, and submitted to the Office of the President on the said date, requested a “copy of the Full Report of the Committee that was constituted to investigate the contract between the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and KGL Technologies Limited (KGL), following the directive by His Excellency the President.”

The Committee was set up in December 2025 following a series of investigative reports by The Fourth Estate, the non-profit public-interest accountability project of the MFWA. The reports questioned licensing contracts signed between NLA and KGL that were causing the State to lose revenue from the operations of the NLA.

The Committee was tasked to, among other things, examine the legal basis, scope, duration and financial terms of the contracts. The Committee also expected to examine the compliance of the contracts with the Constitution of Ghana, the Public Procurement Act and the National Lottery Act.

The Committee said even though the deal between NLA and KGL is not illegal, it is not financially beneficial to the Republic. The President, therefore, directed that the deal should be renegotiated to ensure that the state gets an appropriate financial benefit from its Lottery Business.

The filing of the RTI follows similar requests in the past aimed at ensuring a thorough story production cycle. Under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration, the MFWA made a similar request for the full report of KPMG’s audit into the revenue assurance contract between Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The audit was commissioned by the former President following The Fourth Estate’s report questioning the revenue assurance contract between GRA and SML.