The Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team has stated that a significant portion of the corruption-related cases presented to President John Dramani Mahama on Monday, 10 February, will require thorough auditing to establish wrongdoing and determine the appropriate legal actions. The call for audits follows the team’s extensive efforts to compile corruption-related complaints from various sectors, culminating in a report detailing over 2,417 cases.
During a discussion on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, February 11, Daniel Domelevo, a member of the ORAL team, underscored the need for an independent and in-depth financial and procurement audit to establish the veracity of the allegations. Speaking with host Bernard Avle, the former Auditor-General clarified that ORAL lacks the legal mandate to investigate cases independently and, as a result, the necessary agencies must conduct forensic audits to verify breaches before any legal actions can proceed. He further stressed that ORAL’s primary role was information gathering, not investigation.
“The President promised he was going to recover all loot and after the elections, he was inundated by messages of reported corruption and so he thought it wise to put us together to collect those information and so what we presented yesterday was on corruption and corruption related cases, financial fraud and procurement breaches.
“The bulk of it needs auditing to establish those had procurement breaches and cases that were not in line with the laws of Ghana because we didn’t do any investigation. We don’t have a mandate to investigate, ours was to collect information.”
By: Kabah Atawoge
