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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu |Evans Aziamor-Mensah
It was about 2:45pm when Yahsmen Kamal Kokroko was born at the Amoah Hospital at Ablekuma in Accra.
“The baby was not crying. She was silent,” her mother, Salamatu Adams, recalled the events of October 21, 2021.
Midwives and parents often anticipate a baby’s first cry in the labour ward because it signals a newborn’s ability to breathe on its own. But, about four hours after her birth, Yahsmen did not cry.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Adwoa Adobea-Owusu |Evans Aziamor-Mensah
Audit firm, KPMG, has confirmed The Fourth Estate’s finding that Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) cannot take credit for revenue increases in the downstream petroleum sector. KPMG’s audit revealed that while there was incremental revenue growth from 2015 to 2023, except for a decline in 2017, this growth cannot be attributed solely to the services provided by SML.
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May 5, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu |Manasseh Azure Awuni
The Fourth Estate’s investigative report has revealed that Strategic Mobilization Limited (SML) Ghana won a sole-sourced contract for revenue assurance in the downstream petroleum sector despite no experience in revenue assurance. The Fourth Estate also found that the company had no evidence to back its claim that it had saved the nation from potential revenue losses amounting to GHS3 billion.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Adwoa Adobea-Owusu |Evans Aziamor-Mensah
‘Revenue assurance’ company, Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) Ghana, has said its claim of tackling under declaration, diversion, and dilution in the downstream petroleum sector was only for purposes of advertisement. The Director of Support Services at SML Ghana, Yaa Serwaa Sarpong, said on Joy FM’s news analysis programme, Newsfile, that those services it had listed on its website were not part of the services it was performing for the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has filed a Right to Information (RTI) request to the presidency demanding the full report of KPMG’s audit into the revenue assurance contract between Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The MFWA’s request follows a statement released by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, on April 24, 2024, on the president’s decision on the KPMG enquiry.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
Audit firm, KPMG, has reported that the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) entered into various long-term revenue assurance contracts with Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) without the approval from the Public Procurement Authority and Parliament. This follows an audit of the contracts between the two organisations, commissioned by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the wake of series of investigative reports by The Fourth Estate.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
The Fourth Estate has petitioned the Right to Information Commission (RTI) over audit firm, KPMG’s refusal to provide information on its contracts with the government. The Fourth Estate filed an RTI request on January 5, 2024, asking KPMG to provide copies of all the contracts it has signed with the Government of Ghana in the last 10 years. After 14 days of filing the request, the audit firm refused to grant the request.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) has sued The Fourth Estate and its founding Editor-In-Chief, Manasseh Azure Awuni, for what it claims to be “defamatory and reckless” reports about its contracts with the Ghana Revenue Authority. This follows the release of an investigative report by The Fourth Estate, which exposed how SML, an offshoot of a timber company, had made false claims about potential revenue losses it had helped the state to avoid.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has condemned the revenue assurance contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) Ghana. He says, if he is elected to form the next government of Ghana, he will ensure that SML is held accountable for all the monies it has received under the contract.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah |Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected the Ghana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) request to continue using the monitoring system of ‘revenue assurance’ company, Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) while KPMG continues its audit of the contract between the two organisations.
