Gamblers Win Big On Mills’ Death

The Late President John Evans Ata Mills may be resting peacefully in his grave at the Asomdwee Park, but some Ghanaian lotto stakers are jubilating, after being rewarded with millions of cash through the national lottery draw held on Saturday.

For those who believe in numerology, that is placing one’s faith in numerical patterns and to draw inferences from them, and were smart to use the late President’s number of years spent on earth (68 years) and the date he was finally laid to rest (10th August) to stake lotto, had big smiles on their faces when the results of the weekly draw of the National Lotteries were released.

The winning numbers of 68 and 10 did the magic for the smart gamblers.

Some gamblers who spoke to The Chronicle newspaper moments after the results were released, said the late President’s burial date (10th) and his 68 years spent on earth were special events in the history of the nation, which urged them to try their luck at the lottery with the numbers. “In gambling, we don’t play with historical dates or numbers. Our late President was a sitting President before his untimely death, just after celebrating his 68th birthday.

This is historical, likewise the day that he was buried, and I saw myself winning a fortune with those numbers,” George Opoku, a 50-year-old craftsman and a resident at Kasoa, who won GH¢5,000 said. Prince Osei, a young carpenter, who was encouraged by a friend to try his luck on the two numbers, explained how his life had suddenly been transformed after winning GH¢2,500 with same numbers.

He told The Chronicle that two years after his graduation, he’s been struggling to open his own shop, but to no avail. However, with the big money he has won, his dream was going to be a reality. “I am going to use the money to open my own shop. That is my life and that is my future,” he noted.

A 34 year old resident at Gbawe, a suburb of Accra, Kwaku Osei also told The Chronicle how lucky he was to gamble with the lucky ‘Mills’ numbers, as he called them. “President Mills was a lucky man to Ghana and so anything about him is luck.

I was at the Independence Square on Friday to bid him farewell and I think that he realized how sad we were so he decided to cheer us up by letting us win fortune with 68-10. I will not tell you how much I have won but it is something substantial,” he noted. About fifteen lotto sellers interviewed by the paper had at least five people winning with the same 68-10 numbers.

Unimpeachable sources from five lotto operatives told The Chronicle how those gambling operators have been hard-hit with the two winning numbers.

The late President Mills, after years of protracted illness, passed on at the 37 Military Hospital on July 24, 2012, three days after his 68th birthday. He was finally interred at the Asomdwee Park, off the Marine Drive on Friday, August 10, 2012.

Some numerologists have also added the date he died (24 July) to the name of the hospital he died at (37 Hospital) to the month he died in (7th month), which equals 68 (his age).