President John Dramani Mahama has hinted that government is considering outsourcing some of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) cases to private firms to speed up the process of prosecution.
This comes in the wake of the growing criticism questioning the effectiveness and the pace at which ORAL is running and the anti-corruption fight despite the pre-election pledge of effective prosecution.
During a meeting with Civil Society Organisations at the Jubilee House on Monday, March 30, 2026, President Mahama said the government is looking at engaging the services of some private law firms to help with the preparation of dockets on some of the cases.
He believes the initiative will speed up the processes to get the cases in court, assuring the public that once the cases get to the courts, it would be the sole prerogative of the judges to determine whether accused persons are guilty or otherwise.
President Mahama said apart from the 32 cases flagged by the ORAL Committee during its investigations, there are new cases that are coming up which may require the State to seek external support from private firms to fast-track the processes for prosecution.
“I remember when I came into the presidency in this second incarnation I said the whole of Ghana was a crime scene. There are some cases that we are now even finding out. Some audits that are coming in that are showing new things that we didn’t even know about. In all the work that the ORAL committee did, it flagged 32 cases and out of those 32 cases, the processes have gone on. The Minister has the statistics.
“Investigations are advanced, some are in court, some the dockets are being prepared to be taken to court. But even outside the 32 cases there are new cases have cropped up that we didn’t know about or didn’t even envisage and so the way to go is, with the constraints of the investigative body and the Attorney-General’s department, we are exploring the possibility of some private legal firms to help in dockets building and building the cases so that we can send them to court.
“But once it gets to court, we don’t have control over the courts. The law must take its cause. Justice is in the bosom of the judge and they will determine eventually whether a person is guilty or not,” President Mahama stated.
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