ORAL team has received over 700 petitions – Okudzeto Ablakwa

The Chairman of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that the committee is currently reviewing over 700 petitions from the public and will soon present its report to President John Dramani Mahama.

The North Tongu MP noted that all members of the Committee have demonstrated the political will in working to ensure accountability despite the daunting task.

“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 to say that so far, in terms of the petitions that have come in, they are over 700 and it has been really such a daunting task, but there is the political will.

“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 said in an interview with Citi News.

Mr. Ablakwa further explained that the Committee had completed its validation process in Accra and beginning next week validation will be carried out in other regions where reports have come from to ensure thoroughness and accuracy in the information gathered.

“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.”

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