The National Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku took over the reins of the National Lottery Authority as Director General barely a year ago but he's already leaving an impressive indelible mark at the Authority that deserves commendation.
Sammi Awuku, upon resuming office, has made significant changes in the NLA streamlining the lottery sector of the economy and providing better opportunities for NLA customers.
The Director General, as part of his goals to improve the operations of the NLA, has first instilled a major discipline in the staff of the Authority which is making them comply with the working time.
As a result, he as the Director General, is always the first to go work, hence encouraging the workers to be early to work as well.
Aside the fact that now NLA employees are punctual and efficient as they start work on time, Mr. Awuku has also resolved all internal disputes that existed, particularly the political divisions, so as to stimulate unity and hard work among them.
Mr. Awuku made all these known in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's flagship programme ''Kokrokoo''.
''I'm excited that everybody is aligned when it comes to this vision and now we see ourselves as one body. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work the next morning and it hasn't been by a miracle. We work towards it. Traditionally, it is difficult to change but when progress demands change, there must be change and I think the working attitude of the people, I say as for the politics, you can't stop them but from the 8am - 5pm, you can't engage in that...What I'm happy is that now we don't mix the politics with our revenue'', he said.
Under his leadership too, the NLA has touched thousands of lives through its good causes.
''From Christmas, that's from December to end of January, through this our good causes and spreading cheer, we've touched over 15000 lives'', he revealed.
Not to sound like he's blowing his own trumpet although he deserves the praises, Mr. Awuku also disclosed the efforts he and the management of the NLA have made to settle a conflict between their service provider, KGL Technology Limited and them.
He elucidated; ''KGL was supposed to plug into our backend but in the NLA's agreement, the NLA owned online monitoring platform. NLA did not give KGL that online monitoring platform for them to plug in. So, we did it to ourselves, I admit. [2] They were supposed to transfer knowledge in terms of ICT...whatever KGL has doesn't belong to them. It's for the NLA. Yes, Yes, we own the infrastructure. They (KGL) are only our service provider, so they have to also train our people.
''So, I asked our people whether they sent a proposal to them. Was there a training programme you laid before them that they didn't do? And they responded that no. I also made KGL aware that with the substantive that we're walking through currently, I cannot accept the 30 million this year, so, they will have to come dressing properly.''
With these facts established, Sammi Awuku could be said to be one of the effective Director Generals of the National Lottery Authority as he continues to show exemplary leadership.
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