Shelving KPMG report on GRA-SML deal will favour Mahama – Martin Kpebu to Akufo-Addo

Lawyer Martin Kpebu

Private legal practitioner, Lawyer Martin Kpebu has indicated that it is important President Akufo-Addo makes the findings of the audit by KPMG on the deal between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Ltd (SML) public.

Early this year in January, the President appointed KPMG to audit the contracts entered into between GRA and SML and subsequently directed the Ministry of Finance and GRA to suspend the performance of the contracts, pending the submission of the audit report, including any payments presently envisaged under their terms.

This came after an exposé by the Fourth Estate that alleged that Ghana is paying millions to SML for no work done.

After months of conducting its audit, KPMG on March 27, submitted its audit report to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Speaking in a discussion on TV3 on Saturday, Lawyer Martin Kpebu said the President should make the report public in the interest of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to him, any decision to shelve the report will only make the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama stronger ahead of the 2024 General Election.

“The president cannot sit on it; it has to come out. If he sits on the report he will be strengthening the hands of John Mahama again because in Mahama’s regime when the Gyeeda corruption came he released a full report,” Martin Kpebu said on the Key Points programme.

Meanwhile, information gathered indicates that President Akufo-Addo is studying the audit report and will in due time communicate with Ghanaians.