Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to research the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), alleging bias, abuse of energy, administrative injustice, and violations of its constitutional rights.

The petition, dated 12^th November 2025, and signed by way of SML’s Chief Executive Officer, Evans Adusei, seeks CHRAJ’s intervention to probe what the organization describes as “a gross abuse of discretionary power” and “a violation of fair administrative process” within the OSP’s investigation and next record on SML’s contracts with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The petition, filed below Article 218 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 7 of the CHRAJ Act, 1993 (Act 456), requires a complete inquiry into the behavior of the OSP’s lead investigator, Mr. Albert Akurugu, and conceivable complicity by way of the Special Prosecutor, Mr. Kissi Agyebeng.

Background to the Dispute

According to the petition, SML — which supplies success assurance and transaction audit services and products to the GRA — was once engaged in 2018 following what it described as “systemic failures” below a prior contractor, West Blue Consulting.

SML claims its audit paintings resulted in fiscal recoveries exceeding US$1.35 million inside of its first two months of operation.

The organization, on the other hand, alleges that it has since been centered by way of officers throughout the OSP, in particular Mr. Akurugu, who in the past labored with the Customs Division of the GRA all through the length of West Blue’s engagement.

SML contends that Mr. Akurugu’s prior affiliation with the sooner device gifts a “clear conflict of interest” and that his behavior all through the investigation was once “driven by personal animus and a retaliatory motive.”

The petition alleges that Mr. Akurugu brazenly expressed hostility towards SML’s industry, mentioning all through interrogation that he would “make sure SML and its CEO never work again.”

SML additionally claims that those remarks had been captured at the OSP’s personal video recordings and stay in its custody.

Additionally, SML accuses the OSP of mishandling proof all through a June 10, 2025 raid on its places of work in Osu and Tema.

The organization claims that officials “destroyed servers, dismantled CCTV systems, and violated digital forensic protocols”, acts it describes as “a deliberate attempt to inflict operational harm.”

According to the petition, a number of {hardware} elements, together with servers, firewalls, and SCADA methods, had been broken or seized within the procedure.

SML argues that this motion breached the world over recognised requirements on chain-of-custody, virtual forensics, and belongings coverage.

Alleged suppression of proof

The petition additional accuses the OSP of “deliberately suppressing evidence” from statutory establishments such because the GRA, National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Ministry of Finance (MoF), and Ghana Standards Authority, which SML claims validated its paintings.

It alleges that the OSP’s revealed record “adopted a favourable narrative of West Blue while downplaying SML’s contributions.”

SML insists that West Blue’s device have been discontinued because of operational lapses and that its personal engagement stuffed an important hole in Ghana’s success mobilisation construction.

SML additionally alleges that previous to the OSP’s raid, folks attached to corporations whose licences had been revoked by way of the Customs Division in 2017 — His Majesty Freight Services Ltd. and J.B.S. Haulage & Construction — despatched threatening messages to former Customs Commissioner Isaac Crentsil, referencing SML by way of title.

The organization translates this as a part of a coordinated effort to “retaliate against the Petitioner for actions taken under previous GRA management.”

SML argues that Mr. Akurugu’s industry of the investigation was once beside the point given his “close professional and personal association” with actors from the West Blue technology.

Requests to CHRAJ

In its petition, SML requests CHRAJ to:

1. Investigate the OSP’s dealing with of its case and decide whether or not bias, abuse of energy, or administrative injustice came about.
2. Examine the function of Mr. Akurugu and any conceivable oversight or complicity by way of Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng.
3. Order the OSP to supply the interrogation video recordings containing the alleged threats.
4. Recommend disciplinary or administrative sanctions towards any public officials discovered culpable.
5. Issue any more orders deemed simply and equitable.

The organization argues that the movements of the OSP have “caused operational harm, reputational damage, and violated the Petitioner’s constitutional right to property and fair administrative treatment.”

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