By Isaac Adongo, the Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, has called upon President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to present KPMG’s audit report on the revenue mobilization agreement between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilization Ghana Ltd (SML) to Parliament.
The auditing firm, KPMG, has completed and submitted its report on the GRA-SML contract to President Akufo-Addo. According to KPMG’s findings, no technical needs assessment was conducted prior to SML’s engagement, and SML only partially fulfilled the service requirements.
Furthermore, the report recommended that the government, acting through the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and GRA, may terminate the contract with or without cause, providing 120 days’ written notice before the effective date of termination as stated in the Termination Notice.
Mr. Adongo expressed his surprise that the report contains only mild suggestions and recommendations despite the wealth of information available to the public concerning the deal.
“I respectfully request that Parliament be furnished with a copy of the KPMG report to aid the Finance Committee’s investigation. It strikes me as unusual that the report only contains mild suggestions and recommendations despite the abundance of information available to the public regarding the SML arrangement.”
“Consequently, we must scrutinise the comprehensiveness of their mandate, including their TOR, methodology, and approach. Our primary objective is to expose the beneficial owners of this group and utilise Parliament’s authority to recover the funds that have been paid due to this illegality. I trust that the President understands that my Parliamentary scrutiny request is founded on section 33 of the PFM Act, which mandates that Parliament authorise contracts with multi-year obligations in the first instance,” he stated.
The Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament suggested that, for the unsuspecting public, this recent development further solidifies the belief among many discerning Ghanaians that Dr. Bawumia and his associates are simply leading a corruption-ridden digitalization strategy marked by illusions and cunning tactics.
“Without equivocation, this government’s touted mantra of digitalisation is merely a scheme, a political propaganda of chicanery deployed to hoodwink and exploit the people of Ghana for their self-serving benefit.”
“In due course, we will share details of the many corruption-laden digitalization schemes with the people of Ghana,” he further said.
