Businessman, Seidu Agongo, has been accused of orchestrating a covert media campaign to undermine KGL Technology Limited and secure its lucrative National Lottery Authority (NLA) contract for his own company.
In a statement issued by Ahmed Abdullah from Tamale, Agongo, owner of Class Media Group and Onassis Lotto, is alleged to be the chief force behind a “diabolic agenda” by The Fourth Estate and its Executive Director, Sulemana Braimah, to discredit the NLA-KGL licensing agreement.
The statement claims that after failing to persuade the Mahama administration to revoke KGL’s license, Agongo is now using his close associate, Sulemana Braimah, to wage a “mischievous agenda” under the guise of investigative journalism. The ultimate goal, according to the source, is to tarnish the deal’s public image and pressure the government to award the contract to Agongo’s Onassis Sports Limited. The statement also challenges The Fourth Estate to investigate what it describes as the “real issues” at the NLA, including Agongo’s own alleged operation of an unlicensed online lottery.
Below is the full statement:
Seidu Agongo allegedly using Fourth Estate & Sulemana Briamah to Undermine the Image of KGL
First and foremost,
“If Sulemana Briamah and Fourth Estate care so much about the State & Poor, they should set up a private company and apply to the NLA as a Lotto Marketing Company, generate GHS 3 billion and share the money with the State, poor, orphans, and destitute children.”
From a very reliable sources, Seidu Agongo, owner of Class Media Group and Onassis Lotto, alleged operator of illegal NLA 5/90 USSD and Web online lottery(*859#) is the one chiefly behind the diabolic agenda of the Fourth Estate against NLA-KGL licensing Agreement.
Sulemana Briamah is a very close associate and secret confidant to Seidu Agongo, and since NDC came into government, Seidu Agongo behind the scenes has been putting pressure on Chief of Staff, Minister of Finance, Board Chairman of NLA and Director-General of NLA to revoke the licensing agreement of KGL so that Mahama’s government can give that contract to his company known as Onassis Sports Limited Company, a company which has been operating Caritas lottery in partnership with the National Lottery Authority(NLA) since 2024.
All attempts by Seidu Agongo to force Mahama’s government to offer NLA-KGL deal to his company has been unsuccessful so far, and he therefore decided to use his friend Sulemana Briamah to create a mischievous agenda against KGL Technology Limited in the name of investigative journalism aims at creating bad public image for NLA-KGL deal as well as discredit the deal.
Meanwhile, on 15th September 2025, a fintech professional by the name, Jamal Iddrisu petitioned the Fourth Estate against the illegal lottery operations by Seidu Agongo yet Sulemana Briamah has decided not to even acknowledge the receipt of the Petition against his friend, Seidu Agongo.
When NDC came back to Power, Seidu Agongo allegedly decided to operate NLA 5/90 USSD and Web online via *859# without a license from National Lottery Authority(NLA).
The Real Issues at NLA that should get attention of Fourth Estate instead of NLA-KGL deal are as follows:
- Seidu Agongo alleged operations of NLA 5/90 USSD and Web online lottery without license from the National Lottery Authority(NLA) via *859#, Onassis Lotto.
How much has Seidu Agongo paid to NLA and GRA within this period of allegedly perpetuating illegal lottery operations against the State because his Party is in power?
- The payments of GHS 553, 014, 988(over 500 million Ghana Cedis) by NLA to Lotto Marketing Companies from 2013-2020 as commission while Consolidated Fund received only GHS 182, 009, 000(182 million Ghana Cedis).
Below is the breakdown of payments made by NLA to Lotto Marketing Companies operating in the Kiosks as commission:
2013 – GHS 50, 984, 840.78
2014 – GHS 63, 183, 675.61
2015 – GHS 73, 117, 538.80
2016 – GHS 79, 551, 022.65
2017 – GHS 80, 342, 434. 62
2018 – GHS 76, 207, 804.49
2019 – GHS 69, 886, 836.56
2020 – GHS 59, 740, 834.49
- Payments of GHS 153, 302, 459(over 150 million Ghana Cedis) to technical service Providers such as Lots Services Ghana Limited and Simnet Ghana Limited from 2013-2020, and how such bad contracts are negatively affecting the revenue mobilization efforts of the National Lottery Authority(NLA).
Below is the breakdown of payments made by the National Lottery Authority(NLA) to Technical Service Providers from 2013-2020:
2013 – GHS 9, 144, 528
2014 – GHS 14, 215, 933
2015 – GHS 19, 454, 838
2016 – GHS 23, 275, 491
2017 – GHS 23, 893, 388
2018 – GHS 22, 825, 259
2019 – GHS 21, 263, 713
2020 – GHS 19, 229, 309
- The 15years contract of Lots Services Ghana Limited, 10years contract of Simnet Ghana Limited, 10years contract of Alpha Lotto Limited and others at the National Lottery Authority(NLA).
- Non-payment of taxes to Ghana Revenue Authority(GRA) by companies transacting businesses with the National Lottery Authority(NLA).
- Existing procurement contracts at the National Lottery Authority which are detrimental to the state.
The public would like to know for the purposes of Accountability how much Media Foundation for West Africa(MFWA) has been sourcing funding for their operations, and how much they have taken from:
- STAR-Ghana
- UNESCO
- ifex
- United States of America(Ghana Embassy)
- OXFAM IBIS
- MTN Ghana
- Global Partners Digital
- Seidu Agongo and Class Media Group
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- World Wide Web Foundation
From 2022-2024, KGL has paid 6 million Ghana Cedis to NLA Good Causes Foundation, and NLA during the official launch of KGL Foundation decided to make a donation of 200 Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis to the KGL Foundation. How do you equate this to corruption?
As a Country, we should not entertain any form of unethical and unprofessional journalism at all.
Issued by: Ahmed Abdullah, Tamale, Northern Region.
