The Chairperson of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) preparatory committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has updated the public on the operations of the committee, which was set up by President John Dramani Mahama to gather evidence of monies and properties stolen from the state by public officials.

The update followed a tour of state lands and properties allegedly looted by public officials in the country.

Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, in a post shared on Facebook on Saturday, January 11, 2025, said the tour was to gather evidence and validate claims on looted state properties.

He indicated that at one of the locations the team visited, the Dubois Centre, national security officials had to be called in due to a fight that broke out between officials of the Ministry of Tourism and a company claiming to have acquired the rights to manage the centre.

“The locations inspected by Team ORAL include the Dubois Centre, Agric Mechanisation lands, Labadi Beach Hotel’s beachfront, La Trade Fair, the demolished Bulgarian Embassy, and the encroached Northern Development Authority land in Cantonments.

“At the Dubois Centre, Team ORAL was compelled to invite national security to take over the facility to restore peace and security following heightened tensions between staff of the Ministry of Tourism and a company that claims to have been given a contract by the outgoing government to take charge and run the centre. Staff of the ministry claim their offices had been locked, while others said they had received death threats.”

Read his full update below:

The ORAL Team yesterday conducted a field assessment of a number of State Capture locations in the capital, Accra.

These field trips are part of ongoing evidence gathering, validation of claims contained in petitions received from the general public, and comprehensive data compilation efforts within President Mahama’s ORAL preparatory framework.

The locations inspected by Team ORAL include the Dubois Centre, Agric Mechanization lands, Labadi Beach Hotel’s beachfront, La Trade Fair, the demolished Bulgarian Embassy and the encroached Northern Development Authority land in Cantonments.

At the Dubois Centre, Team ORAL was compelled to invite National Security to take over the facility in order to restore peace and security following hightened tensions between staff of the Ministry of Tourism and a company that claims to have been given a contract by the outgone government to take charge and run the centre. Staff of the ministry claim their offices had been locked whilst others said they had received death threats.

We then proceeded to the Agric Mechanization lands in Cantonments, our team was delighted to observe that the military had been deployed to halt a disturbingly opaque appropriation of the lands by politically exposed persons associated with the outgone government after they evicted staff of the Agric Ministry and carried out rezoning, albeit without parliamentary approval.

Acting on distress calls, we also visited the offices of the Northern Development Authority (NDA) in Cantonments where we took judicial notice that faceless characters had hurriedly erected walls to grab large portions of the NDA lands under extremely dubious circumstances. We have promptly informed National Security to step in and protect the land in issue.

Consequently, we have assured officials of the Bulgarian Embassy when we toured their demolished property that our extensive report will adequately document the current state of affairs for appropriate action by the new Mahama administration. We can also confirm that construction of an apartment complex on the demolished Bulgarian Embassy land by Dr. Yaw Adu Ampomah who was President Akufo-Addo’s NDPC appointee remains suspended.

In the coming days, Team ORAL will continue with our State Capture field assessment and validation exercise across the country as we compile a credible and thorough report for the attention of President Mahama.

Team ORAL is determined in ensuring that this preparatory task is well executed and that the high expectations of the Ghanaian people are duly met.

For God and Country.

Ghana First.

BAI/MA



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