Chairman of the five-member Committee leading President-elect Mahama’s Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), the Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that they have received over 400 submissions just 24 hours after providing addresses to the public.
The Committee, after it was announced to the public, has provided addresses where people can channel their issues with evidence to the team. Speaking on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, December 21, 2024, Mr. Ablakwa indicated that the public has made available to the team, over 400 submissions with evidence which they will be going through.
Ablakwa was highlighting on some key issues of national interest the committee will be working on, including the infamous US$58 million National Cathedral project, the US$12 million Pwalugu Dam project and National Service Authority (NSA) scandal amongst others.
This follows a five-member committee set up by President-elect John Dramani Mahama, to spearhead his anti-corruption crusade tagged; Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL).
Some concerns have come up following the announcement of the team, questioning the legality of it.
But according to Mahama, his outfit received several calls and text messages from people regarding corruption and corruption-related activities in various places that require probe.
He explains that it became necessary that evidence substantiating these allegations are put together and forwarded to the appropriate state agencies mandated to work on them after taking over the government.
John Mahama says the team will not be determining which individual or group to be investigate and prosecuted or otherwise, but would rather assemble the evidences being provided by the public for onward action to be taken by the appropriate state institutions.
“Some call me on my phone, some text me, others pass through other people. We want a focal point where all that evidence is directed so that they can assemble that evidence and once we come into office…, ORAL is not going to be investigating people. It is going to gather the evidence and pass that evidence to the government institutions that are supposed to do that kind of work,” he explained.
The President-elect was speaking on Thursday, December 19, 2024, when Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Myriam Montrat, paid a courtesy call on him.
“With regards to ORAL, Operation Recover All Loot, I announced the appropriately committee and I think people are misunderstanding it. We are receiving a lot of information on things that are going wrong, corruption scandals and all that,” he stated.
John Mahama urged Ghanaians to provide every evidence of corruption they have to the team so they can subsequently submit to the requisite institutions for action to be taken.
