The Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwah, has urged the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, to delay prosecuting all cases presented by the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee.

According to him, new laws should be enacted, or existing laws amended, to ensure that former government appointees or politically exposed persons who misappropriated state assets are required to repay or return the looted assets.

He further stated that decisions regarding the prosecution of these individuals should only be made once such legal frameworks are in place.

The pollster, in a series of posts on Facebook, argued that permitting the amendment of relevant laws to require corrupt officials to return their looted assets before prosecution begins will significantly increase the recovery rate of assets from those responsible.

“Government must delay prosecutions from ORAL report until the necessary laws have been amended to increase the rate of recovery,” he said in a Facebook post on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

Mussa Dankwah further noted that many of the alleged looting crimes were carried out by culpable individuals with the assistance of lawyers who were aware of the existing loopholes in the country’s laws, emphasising the need for reformative actions and legal amendments.

He also highlighted the possibility that the looted assets may be concealed in offshore accounts in certain countries.

Dankwah cautioned against the government's potential membership in BRICS, stating that such a move could lead to interference from Western leaders and impede efforts to recover looted assets hidden in Western countries.

“Government must prioritise ORAL over joining BRICS nations to avoid western nations frustrating the recovery efforts because the loots are likely hidden in western and Caribbean banks,” he added.

Mussa Dankwah’s comments come in the wake of the government receiving the cases compiled and collected by the ORAL committee.

The five-member anti-corruption ORAL team was tasked with identifying and retrieving looted state assets.

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