The Chairman of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has revealed that they have received over 700 petitions from the public.
According to the North Tongu MP, these petitions are currently under review, and a report will soon be submitted to President John Mahama.
“We are still compiling all the cases, and we will be presenting our report to the president soon. What I can tell you, avoiding specifics, is that so far, in terms of the petitions that have come in, they are over 700, and it has been such a daunting task, but there is the political will,” he disclosed in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM.
Mr. Ablakwa pledged the commitment of the committee to deliver on its mandate and ensure accountability.
“We are all passionate about this. And what I like about what is going on is that we have the opportunity to show the same passion that we exhibited in opposition. Now that we are in government, we are committed to this. And what this does is that it serves as a deterrent to those of us coming into government,” he stated.
He noted that the committee will wrap up in a couple of weeks, adding that they have received reports from across the country.
“We are hoping to be wrapping up soon in the next couple of weeks. We believe that we have gathered enough. We are now virtually done with a field validation in the capital, where a lot of the looting happened.
But we also have reports from across the country, so, in the next few days, from this weekend, we are going out of the capital to carry out the validation sessions. We will make sure that all the regions are visited where we have received reports from,” he said.
