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Kwaku Ansah-Asare, a former director of the Ghana School of Law, has voiced strong opposition to the government’s decision to establish the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) committee.
Speaking during an interview on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Tuesday, January 14, Mr. Ansah-Asare argued that the move is unnecessary given the existing anti-corruption and crime-fighting institutions in the country.
“We already have institutions capable of handling corruption and crime-related issues. Instead of creating new committees, the president could have simply empowered these bodies to perform their roles effectively,” he said.
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Ansah-Asare expressed scepticism about the committee’s potential to achieve meaningful results, suggesting that its establishment may be driven by political motives. “They may mean well, but from my perspective, ORAL is just about settling political goals. We don’t need that sort of thing,” he remarked.
The former law school director further called on President John Dramani Mahama to reconsider the initiative, warning of potential negative consequences. “Failure to abolish the ORAL committee will lead to the embarrassment of the person who set it up. The earlier he scraps it, the better,” he stated emphatically.
He also expressed concerns about the potential for misuse of power by the committee members, suggesting that such entities often act beyond their mandates. “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,” he warned.
