An Accra High court presided over by Justice Ofori-Atta has ruled that the National Lottery Authority, NLA doesn’t have the powers to prosecute any business that engages in Lottery. According to the judge, any business said to have fallen short of the lottery act, should instead be impeached by the Attorney General because it constitutes a criminal offence. The Authority last year secured an injunction to restrain the mobile operator, Tigo from running with its “Tigo House Promotion” because it was only disguised lottery and therefore illegal. But the judge in its ruling threw out the case. The court also directed the NLA to sign an undertaking to pay any monies that Tigo must have lost as a result of suspension of the promotion.The NLA however recently secured injunctions from the courts to stop a number of the telcos and companies, including AIRTEL, TIGO, VODAFONE, GUINNESS GHANA and FIDELITY BANK from running their promotions which it deemed disguised-lotteries. Today’s ruling could therefore influence all these other injunctions the NLA has secured against these other companies. The NLA has however told JOY BUSINESS, it is drawing its powers from the new lottery act which makes it the only institution mandated to engage in such raffles.