Investigate, jail persons liable for GRA-SML contract – Manasseh Azure

According to Manasseh, despite President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo asking for the contract to be suspended to make way for a comprehensive assessment, it must rather be cancelled outright.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered KPMG to audit the contract between GRA and SML on January 2, 2024.

Commenting on the report following its submission, the Presidency in a press release on Wednesday, April 24, directed that “given that the upstream petroleum audit and minerals audit services could prevent significant revenue leakages, the President has directed that the Ministry and GRA conduct a comprehensive technical needs assessment, value-for-money assessment, and stakeholder engagements before implementing such services.”

“I expect this contract to be cancelled and it is not something that should continue because it is not something that is in the interest of the public so what has been recommended for termination and even the existing downstream one, they both have to be cancelled and further investigations conducted for monies to be retrieved because they kept saying they [SML] did partial fulfilment of the contract terms and I don’t think we can pay somebody fully and they will give us partial results,” he told Selorm Adonoo.

Manasseh Azure Awuni further recommended that “some persons should be made to face the law

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