There is a new twist between Green lotto and one of its customers, Sunday Nwachukwu, who won the N72.7 million jackpot after playing one of its games.
You will recall that Findmoreafrica reported that Green Lotto was dragged before the Lagos State High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square over their refusal to pay a businessman his win of N72,7000,000. Green Lotto, owned by Brentwood Multiservices Global Limited, has explained its decision not to pay Nwachukwu his winnings.
Green lottery response
The lottery firm said the decision not to pay Nwachukwu was hinged on the fact that he engaged in irregularities, the Vanguard reports.
Nwachukwu’s side of the story
On October 20 2022, Nwachukwu testified before Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay that on January 29, 2021, he played a game with N330,000, and when the result came out, he won the game, but the defendants refused to pay him the winning sum. The apprentice wins an N16m sports bet in Alaba Market; his boss orders the boy to give him half the money. In a similar report, Findmoreafrica revealed that an apprentice in Alaba Market, Lagos hit it big as he won a sports bet of N16 million. According to @oku_yungx, who shared the story on Twitter, the lad’s master requested that he is given half of the total winning. The tweep said things ended in the boss’s favour as market people prevailed upon the young man to do it. It is not an exciting part for the industry stakeholders as this will send a wrong signal to other players in the lottery industry, especially for a company withholding players’ winnings to the extent of going to court.
