Dominic Ayine, the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, has boldly declared that the government’s Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative is not failing.
According to the Attorney General, ORAL is not failing, declaring that ORAL is on track and is going to succeed.
The Attorney-General further argued that his office had achieved unprecedented results in corruption-related prosecutions within a single year.
He stressed that he is the first Attorney-General to have brought five corruption cases in one year to court.
Dominic Ayine further dismissed claims that the government was shifting attention away from the ORAL.
Speaking to journalists, the Attorney-General stated, “As for the threat of arming themselves and making the country ungovernable, I think I will treat it with the contempt it deserves”.
“But as far as this government is concerned, I want to reiterate that we will respect the rights and freedoms of every Ghanaian,” the Attorney-General added.
“You know, it’s very interesting when statements like that are being made that we are doing this because ORAL is failing. ORAL is not failing,” he declared.
He further added, “Go back and check the record. I am the first Attorney-General in the history of the Fourth Republic to have brought five corruption cases in one year. Go back and check the records”.
“What is happening in court now is rather putting pressure on them because they know that I have been so diligent in my investigations. I have been so diligent in the prosecutions that they are afraid that their people will go down for the acts of corruption that they are engaging in,” he said.
“And so, the accusation that we are shifting focus away from ORAL is not something that I will pay heed to because ORAL is on track and ORAL is going to succeed,” Dr Ayine stressed.
Meanwhile, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, the Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, has categorically stated that the John Mahama government’s Operation Recover All Loots(ORAL) has collapsed.
According to A Plus, he knows people in the current NDC government who have also bought government land.
He disclosed that ORAL has failed because President John Dramani Mahama is not being told the truth.
Kwame A Plus is quoted to have said, “Apart from the fact that I know some people in ORAL and their relatives who own government land, I have land documents like this. When they say they are going to start from 2016, I say you guys are jokers.
One day, when I get angry, I will release everybody’s land documents, and it includes people in this government. They know, and now they know it’s their turn. I know people who have just come, bought government land, and have finished building. I know all of them, so no one should talk about ORAL again. ORAL has collapsed because they are not telling the president the truth,” he said.
In related news, President John Dramani Mahama has revealed his government is exploring the possibility of engaging private legal firms to assist in ORAL cases.
Mahama detailed that his government is exploring engaging private legal firms to assist in docket preparation for ORAL cases.
In a new card shared by GHOne TV, read, “We’re exploring the possibility of engaging private legal firms to assist in docket preparation for ORAL cases, so they can be sent to court”.
