Minority Chief and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has threatened authorized motion towards International Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and different members of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) workforce if his identify or any of his properties seem of their report.
Talking in an interview with Pleasure Information, Mr Afenyo-Markin criticised the committee, accusing them of insincerity and alleging that they spied on his properties utilizing drones with out his permission.
They thought it was state land, and since I share a wall or there is a widespread boundary between my property and the police academy, they assumed it was police academy property that I had illegally acquired. Sadly for them, that was not the case.
He accused the present administration of witch-hunting political opponents and vowed to hunt authorized redress if his identify seems within the report. He said:
If I see something inconsistent with the regulation, I am going to sue them. I am going to sue their particular person personalities for the regulation to treatment the scenario. In case you win energy, you don’t use that energy to dislodge one other particular person.
In the meantime, the ORAL committee submitted its report back to President John Dramani Mahama on Monday, tenth February 2025, at Jubilee Home. The report particulars circumstances of corruption involving public officers, significantly underneath the previous authorities, as a part of efforts to fight the menace.
The five-member committee, chaired by North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, consists of former Auditor-Basic Daniel Domelevo, retired Commissioner of Police Nathaniel Kofi Boakye, personal authorized practitioner Martin Kpebu, and investigative journalist Raymond Archer.
In his speech, Mr Ablakwa revealed that the committee acquired a complete of 2,417 cases, with 1,493 reported by way of telephone calls and 924 by way of emails. He emphasised that the institution of the committee was each well timed and important within the combat towards corruption.
