A member of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has backed claims that the Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, is moving slowly in prosecuting corrupt officials.
According to Owusu, there’s ample evidence for the A-G to prosecute officials from the previous administration suspected of corruption, but has failed to do so almost a year into the NDC administration.
Speaking on the BigIssue segment on the NewDay morning show on Wednesday, October 8, 2024, Owusu urged the A-G to expedite his prosecutorial processes to make persons who have looted the state face the full rigours of the law.
He pointed to examples of former government officials in the Northern region who have built extravagant mansions, far beyond what their legitimate incomes could afford.
“Why do we come and sit here and pretend that we don’t know people stole from us? Domelevo is right on point,” Owusu said. “Wasn’t it the Attorney-General who told us the National Service scandal involved GHC548 million stolen by about four or five people, and names were mentioned? He said he’d go to court by the end of July. Are we in July?”
Owusu expressed frustration, stating, “We know they’ve stolen from us, and you want to use fancy words to cloud our thinking? It’s not going to happen.”
His comment follows a lamentation by Daniel Yaw Domelevo, a former Auditor-General and member of the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) team, who said he is dissatisfied with the manner in which this administration is carrying out the prosecution of former public officials accused of corruption.
Recounting the work the ORAL team has done so far, Mr. Domelevo says he is surprised the Attorney-General has not prosecuted a single individual yet.
Speaking in an interview on The KSM Show, aired on YouTube on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, he said those implicated in corruption and corruption-related cases are hoping for a regime change so the allegations against them can be dropped.
“I am not satisfied at all. This is because I can’t see the tunnel, let alone talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, the prayer of the culprits and their lawyers is that there should be a change in government, and then the new one will enter a nolle prosequi, and our money is gone,” he said.
He urged the Attorney-General to speed up things and prosecute the suspects before the administration runs out of time.
“The procedure that the current Attorney-General is using is going to be very difficult. Nine months is not a small amount of time. Before we know it, we will have finished the term of President Mahama. So, I think we have to change the speed at which we are moving.”
President John Dramani Mahama established the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) Team in December 2024 as a citizen-driven anti-corruption initiative led by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who currently serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The team was tasked with gathering and documenting public complaints about alleged misappropriation of state resources, forwarding credible cases to investigative authorities, and helping recover stolen public funds at no cost to the state.
By June 2025, the Attorney-General had reportedly prepared 33 corruption-related cases against former government appointees based on ORAL’s work.
However, Mr. Domelevo’s comments highlight growing concern over the pace at which these cases are being pursued.
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