The Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Ltd (SML) owners have been exposed for cooking another shady last-minute contract at the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL).
According to a Joy News report, Evatex Logistics Limited, a company affiliated with SML, three days before the 2024 elections, was awarded a contract.
Evatex Logistics Ltd is said to be a mining and sieve-dooring company with no record of having ever performed the services.
Evatex Logistics was contracted by GACL to provide revenue assurance services in regard to cargo at Kotoka International Airport.
A narrator in JOY NEWS probe explained, “Three days to the 2024 election, however. A Shady Revenue Assurance and Auditing Contract, similar to that of the SML Scandal, was cooked at Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL)
This contract, which appeared to be backdated, was awarded to Evatex Logistics Ltd., a mining and sieve-dooring company with no record of having ever performed the services.
Our investigation revealed that this company is linked to SML, an email address on the website of Evatex. Evertel@ghana.com is the same email address on the website of Evans Timbers Ltd., A parent Company of SML”.
It also added, “A search at the Office of Registrar of Companies also revealed that the beneficial owner of SML Evans Adusei is also the beneficial owner of Evatex Logistics, a mining company awarded the contract at the Airport.
In fact, Evans Adusei is both the CEO of SML and the CEO of Evatex.
The list of workers submitted by Evatex to the Ghana Airports Company to execute the contract contains the names of notable SML employees and managers”.
The investigative report revealed SML was used a a post-retirement destination for GRA employees.
“The SML head of engineering, Hamdan Abubakari, is named in the Evatex list. SML head of IT Price Sarpong is also on the list to perform the contract, and former head of Legal at the GRA Philip Jude Mensa, now an SML employee, witnessed the Evatext contract with Ghana Airports Company is on the Evertech list together with a former Commissioner of Customs and now General Manager of SML, Isaac Crentsil.
SML, which now appears as a post-retirement destination for GRA employees, sneaked to the Airport disguised as Evertex”, it added.
Procurement expert Korina Ata Bedu noted, “Under our labour loss, an employee cannot receive salaries from two companies”.
Also, Benjamin Boakye detailed that SML itself have admitted they were doing things wrong as SML was exposed and they needed Evatex Logistics to bid for another government project.
He noted that if SML were convinced that the work they were doing was generating returns for Ghana, they would not have bid for another contract with the name Evatex.
ACEP Benjamin Boakye added, “You are better off going with a company that is mature or old, but they couldn’t because of the controversies around SML and how exposed the Company was in the public eye.
They themselves admit that they have been doing things wrong, and don’t have even the confidence to work or bid with the same company. If they were really genuinely convinced that the work that they are doing is generating returns, I don’t see why you would want to write on thermo force into another company to bid for another Government project”.
Meanwhile, Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare, the managing director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), has ended the scandalous revenue assurance contract with Evatex Logistics.
The report suggests that Evatex Logistics Limited, a company affiliated with SML, has been served with a termination letter on 28th July, 2025.
According to reports, no payments have also been made to date to Evatex Logistics.
“The terms of reference indicated that, upon successful completion of the assignment, GACL would pay Evatex Logistics Ltd out of the recouped amount—a fee equivalent to 15%, which shall be charged on the total of the possible royalties unearthed, concealment uncovered, and recouped by GACL under the audit assignment”.
Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare’s statement read, “Reference is made to the Revenue Assurance Audit agreement (The Agreement) executed between Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and Evatex Logistics Limited on the 4th of December 2024.
Management would wish to bring to your notice (as at the date of this letter), its intention to terminate the Agreement without cause oursuant to the termination clause (a) of the agreement which states as followe: A party may terminate this Agreement before its expiry, without cause, by providing the other party a one month’s prior written notice of ts decision to terminate….”
The GACL MD added, “Hence, effective 27th of August 2025, the agreement executed on the 4th of December 2024 shall cease to have effect and shall be considered as terminated by GACL. You are therefore required to use this notice period to demobilise and leave the premises of Kotoka International Airport on or before the 27th of August 2025.
We thank you for your intention to carry out the revenue assurance audit and wish you well in your future endeavours”.
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