Private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil has said that loot recovery exercise must be guided by history.

He expresses the view that those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. "What's the history of so-called 'loot recovery'?

It's a cycle where the recoverers become the looters and the looters become the recoverers.

It's we citizens who lose when then bandits who have now become friends walk off and laugh at us. "To those rolling their eyes, ask yourself what happened to Woyome?