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Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) has dragged the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to the Accra High Court.
According to the claim filed at the High Court in Accra, SML is demanding the return of seized equipment and more than $28 million in damages.
SML is accusing the Office of the Special Prosecutor of an unlawful raid on its offices.
In a statement of claim filed, SML recounted that the OSP on June 10, 2025, raided their officers under a purported warrant.
They revealed the OSP seized several items, including servers, laptops, storage devices, and specialised mineral analysis equipment from the search on their premises.
According to the SML, the seized equipment formed the backbone of Ghana’s petroleum and solid minerals monitoring systems.
They argued that the seizure caused a nationwide collapse of its secure data communication network linking 25 petroleum depots.
SML also accused the OSP of breaching forensic and evidence-handling standards, accusing them of uprooting physical hardware instead of conducting a forensic imaging process.
They are calling on the court to declare the OSP’s detention of its property unlawful and to immediately return all seized equipment, and they are also demanding compensation.
Meanwhile, Manasseh Azure Awuni, an Investigative journalist, has shared more details regarding the controversial Strategic Mobilisation Ghana contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
The Investigative journalist revealed SML was making $121,000 a day, when Ghana was producing 160,000 barrels of oil.
He further refuted claims by SML that the contracts with the government were performance-based.
Manasseh Azure detailed that SML was charging Ghana a fixed amount of money for the revenue assurance service it was supplying.
Speaking in an interview with JoyNews, Manasseh Azure explained, “They were taking a fixed percentage from whatever we input. It’s like a tax. If anybody bought petroleum products, if you pump any litre of fuel into your car, anywhere in this country, as soon as the fuel comes through into the system, SML was entitled to GHp5 per litre.
“And that five pesewas may seem very small until you multiply it by the hundreds of millions and billions of litres we consume in a year,” he said.
He further explained, “Go to the gold mining sector. SML was entitled under the contract Ofori-Atta masterminded to a fixed percentage – that is, 0.75% of the total production of minerals. And this year, we are getting billions of dollars because gold prices are going up, and mineral prices are going up. It is a fixed percentage.
“Go to the downstream, where we produce petroleum. The contract said every barrel of oil Ghana produced, SML should be entitled to $0.75 per barrel. It may look small, but at the time, we’re producing up to 160,000 barrels a day. This means the company will be making at least $121,000 every single day we produce oil,” he said.
See the statement below:
