Osafo Marfo’s KROLL Is Above Ghana’s Laws-Akufo Addo Gov’t Says

In a rather shocking turn of events, the Attorney General claims Brtish Company Kroll and Associates which was paid a questionable US$ 1 million by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo is above the laws of Ghana.

According to the Attorney General in its statement of case filed at the Supreme Court today, Kroll and Associates is a special foreign company whose contract can neither be subjected to the approval of the Ghanaians Parliament nor be probed in case of breaches.

In the government’s argument articulated by the Chief State Attorney, Sylvester Kow Williams, the alleged fraudulent Kroll contract is not of the nature conceived under Article 181 (5) of the constitution which requires explicit parliamentary approval for all foreign contracts with the government of Ghana.

The AG’s office further argues that the Ghanaian constitution did not exntend to that all foreign agreements with the government of Ghana would have to be laid in parliament, saying if all such agreements need parliamentary oversight, the Ghanaian legislature will be overburdened.

This strange argument is coming immediately after the Akufo Addo administration forced the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo into an unsolicited 167-day “accumulated” annual leave.

Mr. Domevelo had months ago issued an official audit report that suggested the Kroll contract with the Senior Minister’s office for asset retrieval was fraudulent as no work was done deserving the US$1 million free cash given them by both the Finance Ministry and the Senior Minister.

The Auditor-General had insisted that there was no prove of work done after several attempts to find it has hit a brick wall from the Senior Minister. The Supreme Court had given the Senior Minister some days to provide the proof. Before proceeding on leave, Mr. Domelovo was seriously probing the Kroll saga.

However, the exact day, Mr. Domelevo was forced home, his assistant, Akuamoah Asiedu who is a temporary stand-in for the Mr. Domevelo while he is on leave, immediately cleared Mr. Osafo Marfo and Kroll Associates in what has been seen by critics as a grand conspiracy by the Akufo Addo administration to cover-up the questionable payment to Kroll.

In a letter written on July 2, 2020 (Mr Domelevo’s leave started on July 1, 2020), the Acting A-G Akuamoah Asiedu wrote to the Senior Minister: “Reference to our letter dated 25/6/2020 and yours dated 30/6/2020, and the inspection of the documents in your office on 2/7/2020. We wish to state that we are satisfied with the process and therefore propose that the lawyers inform the Supreme Court accordingly to enable the parties to go back to the High Court to continue with the proceedings in that Court.”

This letter essentially seeks to clear the Senior Minister of the fishy deal.

The case currently in the Supreme Court, was instigated by controversial musician and social commentator, Kwame Asare Obeng “ A-Plus”.

A-Plus is seeking the apex court of Ghana to issue a declaration forcing a refund of the funds paid to Kroll, arguing that the Kroll contract was sneaked behind the Ghanaians parliament, despite Article 181 (5) requiring all international agreements with the government of Ghana to go through parliament.

A-Plus’ s lawyers say Kroll and Associate is “a corporate body incorporated and registered in Wales and England”, making it a legal character with an international identity.

The company is said to have been contracted in September 2017 through a performance service agreement to investigate and retrieve certain assets.

This is despite the fact that several Ghanaians state agencies have the mandate for such asset recoveries. In the Auditor-General’s audit report that unearthed the shady deal, it stated that even before the contract was awarded, some money was already wired to Kroll.