The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has joined the chorus of people urging President Akufo-Addo to release the complete KPMG audit report regarding the agreement between Strategic Mobilization Ghana Ltd (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
KPMG was tasked by President Akufo-Addo on January 2, 2024, with auditing the two businesses’ contract.
On April 24, 2024, the Presidency released a press release following the audit report’s submission, revealing that the total fees paid under the contracts from 2018 to the suspension date was more than one billion Ghana cedis.
Sammi Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer for the NDC, stated that all funds paid to SML have to be reclaimed during her speech at the Moment of Truth series.
He continued by saying that everyone connected to the contract has to be arrested and charged.
“The NDC demands the immediate publication of the full KPMG investigative report on the dealings between SML and the GRA. Mr President, why are you hiding that report? That report was conducted and put together by KPMG after their investigation at the expense of the Ghanaian taxpayer
“KPMG did not do that work for free, they were paid by the Ghanaian taxpayer…so why are you keeping that report like a CIA confidential report in your drawer in your office?” he questioned.
The party asks, among other things, that all SML and GRA contracts be immediately terminated.
“We in the NDC here demand the immediate termination of all, not some, all illegal contracts entered between SML and the GRA. Here we are talking about their transaction audit agreements, their external price verification agreements and their downstream petroleum audit agreements…
Also, “the retrieval of all payments by the government to SML under the illegal agreement has occasioned a huge financial loss to the state. Once the agreements are illegal then the state cannot respect those agreements…an agreement signed in contravention of the laws of this country cannot stand the test of law in this country and therefore any payment made under this village agreement must be retrieved.”
