A member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee, Daniel Yao Domelevo, has responded to a directive issued by the Minority caucus to appointees of the Akufo-Addo government.

The Minority, addressing the press on January 15, 2025, urged former government appointees to boycott any invitations from the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) committee, describing its establishment as unconstitutional.

“What they are doing is to go about disturbing people, entering homes, seizing vehicles and more or less taking over lands from people who have genuinely purchased lands. What the former government officials have done is acquire properties legally.

“No illegality has taken place. NDC members have acquired lands in this country. The executives, Okudzeto Ablakwa and co live at Cantonments, Airport - all lands which were government lands that they bought many years ago. The people of Ghana should not tolerate this ORAL which is out there to only persecute the former government officials,” John Darko, the MP of Suame said.

He continued, “No serious country will entertain anything like this. So, if you are a former government official and receive an invitation from this so-called ORAL, the Minority’s advice is to boycott it. We are not going to be part of it because we believe that there are constitutionally established bodies that can investigate any so-called misdeeds of the government.”

In response to the directives, Domelevo stated that no one has been invited by the committee since the inception of ORAL, refuting the Minority’s claims.

Speaking in an interview on Class FM on Thursday, January 16, 2025, the former Auditor-General explained that the committee’s mandate is to collect and receive information from individuals who willingly come forward to provide them with information.

“To the best of my knowledge, zero. We haven’t invited anybody. It is only people who are ready to come and give us information that we collect information from. I am yet to see one person who says we called or wrote him to appear before the committee. We have not done that because we are not investigators,” he stated.

When asked by the program host if the committee has completed compiling the information gathered, Domelevo responded that they have not, as the committee continues to receive information daily.

“The information keeps coming every day and we don’t know when it will end. People keep coming with new information,” he added.



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