ORAL Has Saved Ghana 20 Bungalows – Okudzeto Ablakwa Reveals
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Foreign Affairs Minister-designate and Chairman of Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), has emphasized the significance of this anti-corruption team set up by President John Dramani Mahama.
The ORAL was established with the aim of recovering all looted State properties and uncovering the corruption practices of the previous administration led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The team also comprises COP Kofi Boakye rtd. who is now in charge of operations of the President’s security detail, former Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, and lawyer Martin Kpebu among others.
Answering a question on the way forward for the team and what they have discovered since their establishment, the Minister-designate disclosed the ORAL has saved Ghana 20 bungalows.
“I can reveal to you today that since ORAL was established, just by the establishment of the team and we receiving information from the general public, we have saved this country 20 bungalows which were going to be demolished…and I can provide the list; bungalows that were being occupied by staff of research department of the Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Gender, the CSIR. Bulldozers had moved in but because they called the ORAL Secretariat and we then called National Security to take action, they were able to protect these bungalows”, he said during his vetting before the Appointments Committee on Friday, January 31.
He added the team also holds a tall list of monies to retrieve for the country.
“I have a tall list of monies that can be retrieved. Sky train, we can get our 2.5 million dollars back. Agyapa, we can get our $12 million back. National Cathedral, we can get our $58 million back.”
On their next move, Okudzeto Ablakwa said; “The way forward for ORAL is that all the information that have come from patriotic Ghanaians, we will be handing over our report soon in the next few days to H.E. the President, the appointor, and then he will decide with his Attorney-General on the second phase of ORAL which is the execution phase, the retrieval phase, the prosecution phase; so that is the future of the ORAL.”
Source: Ghmessenger.com
