The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) is advising its members summoned by the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee, not to honour the invite, saying the team has no legal right to do so.
According to the NPP, there are established state institutions responsible for corruption and corruption-related issues for the state, and the establishment of the ORAL, is nothing but an attempt to persecute members of the former government.
Addressing the media in Parliament Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the Member of Parliament for Suame, John Darko, alleged that the ORAL team has been vandalising people’s homes to seize their legally acquired properties which he says smears of an attempt to intimidate appointees of the previous administration.
The Minority has, therefore, urged its members to boycott any invitation by the ORAL saying it lacks the legitimacy to carry out its operations.
“Our advice to you from the Minority is to boycott any invitation from the ORAL team. We are not going to be part of it because we believe that there are constitutionally established bodies that investigates any so-called misdeeds for the government.
“What they (ORAL) are doing is to go about disturbing people, entering homes, seizing vehicles and more or less taking over lands from people who have genuinely purchased them,” Darko alleged.
He indicated further that lands and other properties acquired by persons in the Akufo-Addo administration was done legally, therefore making the action of the ORAL team nothing but a political witch hunt.
“What the former government officials have done is to acquire properties that legally, they will acquire. No illegality has taken place,” he added, accusing members of the current administration of equally obtaining properties that hitherto, belonged to the state.
“In any case, the NDC, their members have also acquired lands in this country. The Executive, Okudzeto Ablakwa and co, they live in the Cantonments, they live in the Airports, they live in the Tse-Addos, lands which were government lands, which they bought many years ago. The people of Ghana should not tolerate this ORAL which is out there to only persecute the former government officials,” he alleged.
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