The next NDC government will terminate contracts between the Gov’t and SML – Sammy Gyamfi

The National Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has stated that the NDC wishes to reiterate the pledge made by their flag-bearer and leader, John Dramani Mahama, that the next NDC government will not recognize the illegal contracts between the Government of Ghana and SML, upon assumption of office in the year 2025.

He revealed that when elected into office, they shall launch credible and transparent investigations into the SML scandal, with the aim of retrieving for the State all illegal payments made to SML and ensuring the prosecution of all persons complicit in these illegal transactions. While in opposition, sole-sourcing was considered tantamount to corruption according to the NPP. Sammy Gyamfi stressed that breaches of the procurement law were considered abominable. Indeed, since 2017, the NPP government has prosecuted several persons for alleged procurement and other statutory breaches. Some of these people have been convicted and are languishing in jail today.

In a press conference at the NDC headquarters on Monday, April 29, the NDC demanded the immediate termination of ALL the illegal contracts entered into between SML and the GRA, the retrieval of all payments made by the government to SML under the illegal agreements which have occasioned a huge financial loss to the State, the immediate publication of the full KPMG investigative report on the dealings between SML and the GRA, and the prosecution of all persons involved in the award of illegal contracts and the illegal payments thereof, to SML.