The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dominic Ayine, has dismissed claims that the government’s Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative is not yielding results, insisting that the anti-corruption campaign remains active and successful.
Speaking on the government’s ongoing corruption prosecutions, Dr. Ayine argued that the legal actions currently before the courts are rather placing pressure on the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“When statements like that are being made that we are doing this because ORAL is failing, ORAL is not failing,” he stated when he spoke to journalists on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at Aqua Safari on the sidelines of the Public Accounts Committee sitting.
According to the Attorney General, his office has made unprecedented progress in prosecuting corruption-related offences since the beginning of the Fourth Republic.
“Go back and check the records, I am the first Attorney-General in the history of the Fourth Republic to have brought five corruption cases in one year,” he said.
Dr. Ayine maintained that the prosecutions have unsettled members of the opposition because of fears that some individuals implicated in alleged corruption cases could face imprisonment.
“What is happening in court now is rather putting pressure on them because they know that I have been so diligent in my investigations. I have been so diligent in the prosecutions that they are afraid that their people will go to jail for the acts of corruption that they engaged in,” he stated.
He further rejected suggestions that government was shifting attention away from the ORAL initiative, insisting that the programme remains on course.
“So the accusation that we are shifting focus away from ORAL is not something that I will pay heed to because ORAL is on track and ORAL is going to succeed,” he added.
