Private lotto operators are hoping to lobby Parliament to amend the current lotto law, so they can continue business. The operators have gone to the Supreme Court to seek a review of an earlier ruling that backed the ban on private lottories in Ghana. However the General Secretary Seth Asante Amoani tells Joy Business that while in court, they will also be pushing for the amendment of the law. “We are tackling all at the same time because we’ve already sent a petition to Parliament that they should have a re-look at the law that they passed to see if they can make the necessary changes to accommodate us. All what we want is to carry on our work in a peaceful and a regulated environment,” Mr Amoani told Joy Business reporter Israel Laryea. “We are not asking for anything more than that,” he added. Private lotto operators, mainly the Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA), have for years been calling on the government, as a matter of urgency, to amend the National Lotto Act (Act 722), 2006, to enable private sector operators get into the industry. They say this would help increase revenues, create jobs for the teeming youth, and maintain public-private sector equilibrium and fair competition, in the lotto industry. Mr. Amoani has in earlier interactions with the media insisted that GLOA was deeply affronted by the subtle and deliberate attempt by the current directors of the National Lotto Authority (NLA), to permanently crush the operations of GLOA, who were branded “avowed supporters of the NDC Government in the 2008 elections.” Mr. Amoani explained that the misleading argument put forward by the NLA, posited on monopoly and revenue generation, was flawed. The secretary of GLOA observed that the development of this country would be accelerated through a carefully structured government support for private businesses to widen the economic base of the nation, greater revenue mobilisation, unemployment reduction, and providing the needed private sector buffer to the government, to focus on key aspects of our development. Source: Myjoyonline.com/The Chronicle/Ghana