The presidency on May 22, backtracked on an earlier position to withhold the full KPMG report into the GRA-Strategic Mobilization Limited (SML) deal that had come under severe critique. While a statement signed by the president's spokesman said the president waived exemption clauses in the Right To Information law to release the over 300-page document, Asiedu Nketiah has given a different account. "It was a condition that Dr. Ato Forson gave when there was a meeting between the president and the leadership of parliament. The KPMG report on GRA-SML dealPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo released an over 300-page audit report on contracts and transactions between GRA and SML. After an initial decision to not release the full audit report by KPMG, the Office of the President announced in a statement dated May 22 that the report had been released despite Right To Information (RTI) exemptions raised earlier.

Source: GhanaWeb May 26, 2024 18:58 UTC