The sole lottery company in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian National Lottery Enterprise, collected 2.6 million faulty instant lottery tickets.
Many people claiming to be winners of the instant lottery ticket, sold for three birr each, went to the National Lottery to collect their winnings. The enterprise then discovered that there were errors with the printing of the lottery tickets. The company hired to print the lottery ticket printed more winning tickets than were ordered to print by the enterprise.
Public Relations Directorate Director with the Ethiopian National Lottery Enterprise, Tewodros Neway, told The Reporter that the enterprise discovered that 2.6 million instant lottery tickets had defaults and collected them instantly. However, the enterprise paid the money to some of the winners. Neway said that the 2.6 million faulty tickets are worth eight million birr.
The Indian company that won the bid to print 52.5 million lottery tickets is called Gobson. The company printed a total of 52.5 million out of which 2.6 million were faulty. According to Tewodros, the enterprise claimed eight million birr compensation payment from Gobson. Accordingly, the company made the payment to the enterprise. Gobson has been printing Ethiopian lottery tickets since 2009.
Tewodros said the enterprise collected all the faulty tickets from the market and the enterprise branch offices all over the nation. He said that the tickets printed by Gobson has been sold out adding that there is no further threats in the lottery transactions as all the faulty tickets are cleared.
The National Lottery Enterprise sold 14 types of lottery tickets in the past 11 months and bagged 513 million birr. Out of the total sales revenue, 425.3 million birr income was generated from the instant lottery ticket sales.
In related news, the National Lottery Enterprise is in the process of launching online lottery sales. According to Neway, the enterprise will introduce lottery transactions through mobile SMS and the Internet. The enterprise will have point of sales at public places like supermarkets where customers can buy tickets from lottery machines. This would be the first time the enterprise introduces an online lottery transaction.
The state owned National Lottery has a monopoly over lottery businesses in the country. It is also the regulatory body of lottery businesses in the nation.
Source: The Reporter
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