President-elect John Dramani Mahama has addressed growing concerns and misconceptions surrounding the newly announced Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative.
Speaking to the media, Mahama explained that ORAL's primary role is to serve as a repository for evidence of corruption and not as an investigative body. "With regards to ORAL, I announced the preparatory committee, and people are confused," Mahama acknowledged. "We are receiving a lot of information on things that are going wrong-corruption scandals and all that.
Some send me texts on my phones, some call me, others pass through other people.
We want a focal point where all the evidence can be directed so that they can assemble it once we come into office." Clarifying further, Mahama emphasized that ORAL would not conduct investigations but would forward collected evidence to appropriate institutions. "ORAL is not going to be investigating people.
