
Kow Essuman, a Legal Counsel for former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has criticized the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) “Operation Recover All Loot” (ORAL), comparing it to unsuccessful legal actions taken by the party in 2009.
In a social media post on Thursday, January 16, the lawyer highlighted a 2009 case where NDC members Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Dr. Edward Omane Boamah challenged the late Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey’s acquisition of public land.
The Supreme Court dismissed their claims in 2012, citing a lack of “concrete evidence of arbitrariness, bias, prejudice, capriciousness and personal dislike or breach of due process of the law.”
The lawyer noted that while Dr. Omane Boamah has refrained from participating in the current initiative, Ablakwa is repeating his previous actions without presenting new evidence.
He emphasized that, unless Ablakwa can provide clear evidence of impropriety or illegality, his current claims regarding the acquisition of public lands amount to “mere political rhetoric.”
Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) is a key component of President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s anti-corruption agenda.
Launched in December 2024, the initiative aims to recover misappropriated state resources and enforce accountability in governance.
The ORAL team, chaired by Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, includes former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo, retired Police Commissioner COP Nathaniel Kofi Boakye, private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu, and investigative journalist Raymond Archer.
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One of the biggest problems of the NPP is underestimation. When your hand is in someone's mouth, please don't knock on his head, because you'll be bitten. Do you think MP Sam Ablakwa is illiterate enough to fight corruption blindly without evidence? What accusation has that MP brought forward without revealing documents to support his claim? Even in opposition, the NPP still repeats the mistakes that led to their sad defeat. I recently realized that the major part of ORAL's successful task o...