The coordinator for civil rights advocacy group, Ghanaians Abroad For Open Justice (Ghafoj), Mr. Kobby Annan, on behalf the group has expressed delight to KPMG�s offer to execute their services pro bono for the people of Ghana, in a letter of appreciation addressed to the director of KPMG Mr. Joe Winful.
In the letter signed by Mr. Kobby Annan, the group expressed its positive reception to KMPG Ghana, for accepting to take inventory and audit the pink sheet exhibits which is in contention at Ghana�s Supreme Court, to assist in making a determination in the current petition challenging the validity of the election of John Dramani Mahama as president of the republic of Ghana, pursuant to the presidential election held on 7th and 8th December, 2012.
Ghafoj stated that is pleased to view KPMG as a firm that does not only enjoy the comfort of Ghana�s hospitality and business environment to create Jobs, only to make profits, but also seen as offering special professional services to the benefit of Ghanaians to enhance social justice.
The group also expressed its conviction towards the auditing firm�s capability of executing the task professionally. �Although KPMG offers its service free of charge to Ghana in this case, we expect KPMG to execute this exercise professionally. It is our conviction that having regard to the issue at stake, KPMG�s professional staff (local and foreign) will act independently within the meaning of the Auditing Practices and within International Standards.� The letter stated.
The group concluded with its anticipation to give a deserving tumultuous applause to KPMG on their accomplishment of this task. Ghanaians Abroad for Open Justice (Ghafoj) is Ghanaian civil right group based in The Netherlands with representatives in around the globe.
Last week Ghana�s Supreme Court ordered the audit of the pink sheets to ascertain whether the Petitioners indeed submitted 11,842 pink sheets to the Court. This was at the instance of Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, lead Counsel for the Third Respondent, National Democratic Congress. He claims the pink sheets fell short by 3,337. The cost of the audit was estimated at 1000.00 US dollars. In a good will gesture KPMG, an International accounting firm offered to audit the pink sheets tendered in evidence by the Petitioners to prove allegations of rigging against the Respondents over the 2012 general elections free of charge. KPMG is expected to complete its audit of the pink sheets in two weeks.
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