Daniel Domelevo, the former Auditor-General and a member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, has fumed over the lack of loots recovered so far in the nine months of the John Mahama government.
Domelevo described the Attorney General’s procedure in the ORAL cases as snail speed.
According to Daniel Domelevo, nine months is not a small thing.
He emphasised that before Ghanaians realised that President John Mahama would be done with the quarter.
The former Auditor-General noted that culprits and their lawyers are praying for a change in government.
Speaking in an interview, Daniel Domelevo stated, “With the briefing that the Attorney General has been giving, a lot of work is going on, but am I satisfied? No. I can’t see the end of the tunnel, not to talk of the light at the end of the tunnel”.
“The procedure currently being used is very slow. Nine months is not small. Before we realise, we’ll be done with the quarter.”
He added, “In fact, the prayer of the culprits and their lawyers is that there should be a change in government. Then you hear nolle prosequi, then our money is gone.
It begs one question: were they prepared before coming to office? Because when I look at the quantum of money we should recover and the snail speed at which we are moving, I wonder when we are going to get there,” he lamented.
He further added, “I think we have to change the speed at which we are moving and let people gain the confidence that things are moving and moving very fast. We need to change the legal framework.
If the government refuses to make these changes, it only tells me that either they are doing the same thing, they are also stealing, or they have the intention of stealing”.
Also, Kofi Bentil, a private legal practitioner, has said that the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) was overhyped and it is under-delivering.
According to Kofi Bentil, despite his criticism of ORAL performance, he maintains his support for the overall goal of fighting corruption.
Speaking on The Key Points on TV3, Saturday, September 27, Kofi Bentil stated, “ORAL was overhyped and it is under-delivering. But I support the call to fight corruption”.
It will be recalled that on February 10, 2025, the ORAL team submitted their final report to President John Mahama, who has since directed the Attorney General for further actions.
The chairman of Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) and Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa revealed that with just 36 cases, Ghana can potentially recover $ 20.49 billion in stolen state resources.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Srem Sai, has reassured Ghanaians that the John Mahama-led government is working to pursue cases under the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) initiative.
According to Dr Srem Sai, the concerns about the pace of ORAL cases are legitimate, but he stressed that due process must be followed.
Speaking in an interview on TV3, Dr Srem Sai stated, “The public will say they don’t see anything, but the point I am trying to make is that the expectation is legitimate because of what we have witnessed.
The work we are doing is very thorough and vibrant. I hardly sleep, but the public has to be made aware that we just can’t bundle people based on complaints and throw them into jail”.
Dr Srem Sai also added that the legal vacation had contributed to delays.
“To the extent that for Adu Boahene, we have covered one-third of the case, if not for the legal vacation, which stops the court for two months, we would probably have concluded our case, and then the defence would be open.
We will come back in October and continue from where we left off. That is very fast if you compare it with all the other criminal trials that we are even doing here,” he noted.
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