ORAL established to serve political interests – Ansah-Asare

Kwaku Ansah-Asare, former director of the Ghana School of Law, has expressed strong reservations about the government’s decision to establish the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) committee.

He argued that the country already has several anti-corruption and crime-fighting institutions capable of handling such tasks, and suggested that the president could have empowered these existing bodies instead of creating a new committee.

Ansah-Asare accused the government of using ORAL to further a political agenda, asserting that the operation is unlikely to produce any meaningful outcomes.

“They may mean well, but from my perspective, ORAL is just about settling political goals. We don’t need that sort of thing,” he said during an interview on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Tuesday, January 14.

Mr Ansah-Asare called on President John Dramani Mahama to abolish the ORAL committee, stating that failure to do so will lead to “the embarrassment of the person who set it up. The earlier he scraps it, the better.”

“Overall, ORAL will become one of the many entities presidents have established only to realise that members of the committee will take the law into their own hands and do things that, from a commonsense perspective, should not be done.”