The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has 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.
According to the OSP, its investigation into the SML-GRA contract revealed that sone officials used public office to enrich themselves, in clear violation of the laws of Ghana, causing financial loss to the state.
The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng 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.
At a press conference on Thursday, October 30, 2025, Kissi Agyebeng noted that the charges will be filed by the end of November 2025.
The OSP concluded that the Strategic Mobilization Ghana Limited (SML) contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority was reckless, illegally authorized, and financially detrimental to the state.
Mr. Kissi Agyebeng delivered investigation findings which showed that there was no real need to hire SML to provide the services it claimed to offer.
According to him, the company, SML “did not possess the experience and know-how to engage in revenue assurance services on behalf of the Republic.”
The contracts, he said, were secured through “self-serving official patronage, sponsorship, and promotion based on false and unverified claims.”
OSP stressed that the SML-GRA contract was only “an unnecessary drain on the public purse.”
The OSP’s findings are part of a larger probe into a revenue assurance and monitoring contracts awarded by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Ministry of Finance to SML under the previous Akufo-Addo administration.
