Former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo has said more than six persons must be charged with corruption-related offence in the Strategic Mobilisation Limited contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
Speaking in an interview on TV3 Key Points, Saturday, November 1, 2025, Mr. Domelevo noted that he is not satisfied with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP)charging only six people with corruption in the controversial SML contract.
He suspects that more persons than the six people named are complicit in the corruption case.
“What disturbs me is that the Special Prosecutor is going to hold only about six people accountable. I thought there should be a lot more people complicit in this.
“I think we should open the net a bit wider. I don’t think it is only this six people who are culpable. Definitely, there are chief tax inspectors or directors, etc who would have also approved or look aside for all these things to happen,” he stated.
According to him, the manner in which the OSP is handing the GRA-SML contract “leaves much to be desired.”
“When we do that, they always run away and we do not bring our money back,” he added.
The OSP at a press conference on October 30, 2025, disclosed that the Office would soon charge the former Finance Minister, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, the former Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah and four others with corruption and corruption-related offences in the Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) contract.
The four other persons include; Ernest Akore, Chef de Cabinet to Mr. Ofori-Atta, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, former Commissioner-General of Ghana Revenue Authority, Isaac Crentsil, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority and General Manager of Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited and Kwadwo Damoah, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority and Member of Parliament for Jaman South constituency.
The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng noted that the charges will be filed by the end of November 2025.
According to the OSP, its investigation into the SML-GRA contract revealed that these persons used public office to enrich themselves, in clear violation of the laws of Ghana, causing financial loss to the state.
The OSP assured that it will recover a total amount of GHC125 million from SML as reimbursement for unjust enrichment through overpayment at the expense the Republic.
“The OSP would also seek to recover a total amount of One Hundred and Twenty Five Million Cedis (GHC125,000,000.00) from SML – by way of a disgorgement of unjust enrichment of overpayment – by the return of the benefit of this amount it obtained unfairly at the expense of the Republic,” he stated.
