In order for the investigations and prosecutions to be depoliticised, the report of Operation Recover All loots (ORAL) should have rather been handed over to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), not the Attorney-General, Mussa Dankwah Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics Mussa Dankwah has said.
Mussa Dankwa explained that the ORAL cases will travel beyond the 4-year term of President John Dramani Mahama and since nobody can determine what will happen in the next election in 2028, there is a risk of nolle prosequi to be filed in 2029 if NDC does not win the elections. "As a result, I think the Attorney-General should resource and strengthen the OSP to take on several of these potential political ORAL cases so that we can be assured that those trials will continue beyond the government's term," he wrote on Facebook.
The ORAL Committee says it has identified $21.19 billion in potential recoveries from looted state assets and undervalued land sales.
During the presentation of the committee's report to the President at the seat of Government in Accra on Monday, February 10, ORAL Chairman Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said that if the country is able to recover this amount, there will be no need to go to the International Monetary Fund for support. "If we are successful in recoveries, we can retrieve as much as 20.49 billion United States dollars," he stated.
