Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) has stated that the State of Ghana owes them for services rendered to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
This is contained in a press release dated October 31.
“SML questions the basis of the purported GHS 125 million “to be recovered” by the State, as the evidence on record clearly indicates otherwise. In fact, the State owes SML. Official statements on verified performance data and financial reconciliations are available directly from the GRA,” SML said in the statement issued in reaction to assertions by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng during a press conference on October 30.
According to Mr Agyebeng, “the OSP would charge the following persons with various corruption and corruption-related offences before the expiration of November 2025- “Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, former Minister of Finance, Ernest Akore – Chef de Cabinet to the Minister; Emmanuel Kofi Nti – former Commissioner-General of GRA; Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah – former Commissioner-General of GRA; Isaac Crentsil – former Commissioner of the Customs Division and General Manager of SML; and Kwadwo Damoah – former Commissioner of the Customs Division and Member of Parliament for Jaman South constituency.”
Describing the SML arrangement as a “wasteful pretend revenue assurance,” the Mr Agyebeng condemned the public officials involved as “criminally culpable promoters, sponsors, and patrons of SML” whose actions cost the Republic significant financial loss.
However, SML said its revenue assurance audit systems were developed entirely at its own cost and risk, without any financial support from the state.
“To date, our systems remain the first-of-its-kind, fully integrated, multi-site digital audit and assurance system in the world. This integrated audit system in the downstream petroleum operational chain has generated approximately GHS 20 billion in verified revenue for the State, as corroborated by the respective Bank of Ghana Petroleum Collection Holding Account. The system has led to a 92 percent increase in taxable volumes, while SML’s Transaction Audit Service has further contributed to a 33 percent rise in import clearance revenue collection across the monitored sectors,” they touted in the statement issued by the Communications Department.
