The Centre for Democratic Development Ghana (CDD-Ghana) is satisfied with the release of the KPMG report about the contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML).
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the report public on Wednesday, citing a commitment to transparency and openness.
This release comes after the President initially declined a request from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) to publish the full report.
In an interview, Director of Advocacy and Policy Engagement at CDD-Ghana, Dr. Kojo Asante stated that, while the release sets a positive precedent, the President should respond more promptly to such requests in the future.
“We cannot just close our eyes to these things and [if we do], then we are not holding people accountable. And this is the reason why you are getting so many kinds of infractions in the system. So I think the full report they released, even in terms of the value-for-money arrangement that SML and GRA are making, we still didn’t get any information on what kind of investment SML has made to warrant what they say is a fee-for-performance arrangement.
“So I have many questions that I think need to be followed up to allow this arrangement to go in whatever way that we are thinking about, So I think the release is important. It set a good precedent but we should expect that there should be proactive disclosure from the presidency once it took the matter up and said it was in the public interest to do that” Mr. Asante added.
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