SML alleges Manasseh Azure manufactured '10-year' GRA-SML contract - MyJoyOnline

The Technical Assistant to the Managing Director at Strategic Mobilization Ghana Limited (SML), Richard Marfo, has accused the Fourth Estate’s Manasseh Azure of making up parts of the GRA-SML contract he put in the public domain.

Marfo was very emphatic that the contract as put in the public domain was tampered with and does not reflect a true representation of the terms the Ghanaian government and SML agreed to.

“We are claiming that Manasseh put those words together, simple.

While he admitted that he is yet to fully peruse the entire document put out in the public domain, he was certain that section 3.1 of the contract had been forged.

According to the documents in the public domain, the contract shall remain in effect for a period of 10 years from the effective date unless terminated.

This Contract shall commence on the Effective Date and shall continue in effect for a period of ten (10) years from the Effective Date unless terminated as provided for in this Contract or extended by mutual agreement between the Parties,” it reads.

“The new and consolidated contract which is for a term of five years and not ten years as alleged by the publication, and was agreed upon based on the performance of SML in monitoring the downstream petroleum sector and the provision of instant reconciliation of real-time data in the sector”, the statement signed by the Communication And Public Affairs Department of the GRA said.