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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 12, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah
At least 750 senior high schools and Ghana Education Service offices have been without internet connectivity since March 2024. Internet infrastructure, such as modems, was installed in the schools and offices as part of the government’s Wi-Fi for Schools project. Following the publication of our findings, several sources have revealed that more than 750 schools have not had internet connectivity for much of this year.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah
In 2018, Busy Internet was a company in dire straits. As an internet service provider, it competed against industry giants but achieved little success. Revenue had dipped, and liabilities were increasing along with staff discontent. To cap it all, the company owed millions of cedis in unpaid taxes and social security contributions. At this point, when it seemed that the company was ripe for shutdown, it was announced to staff that Busy Internet had been acquired by a company called Lifted Logistics.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah
It was 11:00 am on July 6, 2023, at one of Ghana’s prestigious senior high schools, Accra Academy. Students had gathered in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) lab, tapping their fingers impatiently on keyboards with exasperating sighs. In contrast, others muttered under their breaths in frustration, desperately trying to connect to the internet.
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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 26, 2024 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Evans Aziamor-Mensah
A resident of Akotoshie, a suburb of Adjen Kotoku in the Greater Accra Region, has sued Twellium Industrial Company Limited, producers of Rush energy drink, for excessive noise and air pollution. The company’s factory shares a boundary with the plaintiff’s house. Joined to the suit as the second defendant is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one of the statutory bodies regulating any activity concerning Ghana’s environment.
