President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Attorney-Common to launch rapid investigations into the findings contained within the report of the Operation Get well All Loot (ORAL) Committee with the view to prosecute anybody discovered responsible for corruption and associated offences.
Receiving the report of the committee on the Presidency in Accra yesterday, President Mahama stated the times the place the state was used as a money cow had been over.
“To those that assume they will defraud the state and escape justice, let this function a powerful warning. Ghana is now not a secure haven for corruption,” he declared.
“To those that stand for integrity, accountcapacity and the rule of legislation, I guarantee you that this authorities stays your steadfast accomplice in constructing a nation the place honesty and onerous work are rewarded.”
In accordance with President Mahama, the work of the ORAL Committee was a defining second in Ghana’s combat in opposition to corruption and residents, the media, civil society and public officers should play their respective components in stemming the tide of corruption.
If all of the social companions performed their components, a hopeful President Mahama stated “we’ll construct a Ghana that’s simply, clear and prosperous for generations to return”.
The assets of the nation, the President reiterated, belonged to the individuals and his administration would judiciously use similar for his or her collective good.
The diversion of public funds for particular personal good points, the President posited undermines growth, erodes public belief and deepens inequality.
Such appalling actions, he stated necessitated the structure of the ORAL Committee to make sure that what has been wrongfully taken from the state was restored to its rightful personalers; the Ghanaian individuals.
To him, the work of the committee which included recoveries of state property from non-public individuals was a testomony of his authorities’s approaches to accountability and good governance.
“Let me guarantee the Ghanaian folks that the work doesn’t finish right here.
The suggestions of the report will fastidiously be studied and the place authorized actions and investigations are required, they’ll be pursued with out concern or favour.
“Each pesewa recovered shall be channelled again into nationwide growth and mechanisms shall be strengthened to forestall such losses sooner or later,” he acknowledged.
Chairman of the committee and the Minister for Overseas Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, presenting the report back to the President stated the staff in whole obtained 2,417 complaints by means of numerous technique of communication.
Out of the quantity, he stated 230 have been analysed which type the idea of the report.
BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI
