Ofori-Atta lied about his role in cases under OSP investigation — Manasseh Azure

Ghanaian investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has countered claims made by former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta regarding the ongoing investigations involving him.

The former minister, who is under investigation for multiple cases, including the SML-GRA scandal by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, had stated that he was not the originating minister behind those transactions.

In an open letter—his first formal response to the investigations that led to him being declared a wanted fugitive—Mr. Ofori-Atta wrote, “I was neither the originating nor implementing minister in any of these portfolios.”

However, Manasseh Azure has dismissed this claim as false, arguing that Ofori-Atta had already determined the contract’s expansion even before the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) was informed to provide input.

“In a letter published by the media, the former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, said of the corruption cases for which he is wanted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor: ‘I was not the originating nor implementing minister in any of these portfolios.’

“That assertion is false. Here is a letter on the shady SML contract. This letter said the Minister of Finance (Ken Ofori-Atta) had ‘determined’ that the contract should be expanded,” Manasseh wrote in a social media post on Monday, March 10.

The journalist further questioned, “On what basis did Ken Ofori-Atta make this determination when our investigation showed that SML was not delivering the solutions it claimed on its website? When we confronted the company, it admitted the false claims and deleted them from the website.”