SIGA reports compiled manually, not with AI — Professor Kpessa-Whyte clarifies

The Director‑General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Professor Michael Kpessa‑Whyte, has firmly rejected calls to withdraw the latest State Ownership Report, insisting that no evidence of inaccuracies or misapplied figures has been presented to the authority.

Speaking on JoyNews on Saturday September 5, 2026, Prof. Kpessa-Whyte defended the integrity of the published figures, explaining that the report was compiled manually by a dedicated team using paper reports submitted directly by state-owned entities.

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Addressing demands for the report to be withdrawn and re-analyzed, Prof. Kpessa-Whyte clarified that SIGA has not received any formal complaints or proof of inaccuracies regarding the data used.

"Obviously not, because nobody has, so far, brought to SIGA evidence to suggest that the figures that were used in doing the analysis, which came from audited and unaudited accounts of the specified entities, is wrong or is wrongly applied. Nobody has done that," Prof. Kpessa-Whyte stated.

He further refuted assumptions that SIGA relied on automated artificial intelligence tools to assemble the state ownership document, clarifying that the current workflow remains rooted in traditional financial analysis.

"Let's not conjecture. This is how they do it every year. In the future, we will have to use AI to write prompts to help us out. But for now, this is work that was done from paper reports. People sitting down doing it manually," he explained.

Warning against public commentary based solely on AI‑generated summaries or automated document extractions, Prof. Michael Kpessa‑Whyte urged analysts to be transparent about the limitations of such tools. "No, I don't suggest it, but I think that people need to be very honest and say that, 'I haven't read the report myself, I have used an AI tool, and so there could be mistakes and misinterpretation, misinformation, whatever they are putting out,'" Prof. Kpessa-Whyte remarked.

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