President Akufo-Addo has appointed the National Organiser (NPP), Samuel Awuku, as the new Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA).
Mr Awuku takes over from Kofi Osei Ameyaw who was ordered to proceed on retirement in March 2021.
He is expected to resign from his current position as National Organiser to assume his new role.
Mr Awuku served as Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), and was twice elected Vice Chair of the Young Democrats Union (IYDU), an international association of the youth wings of conservative parties across the world.
He is joining the NLA months after staff of the authority threatened to withdraw their services over mismanagement, leading to the non-payment of lottery wins for several months and non-payment of workers’ salaries for February this year.