Special Prosecutor the best person to handle ORAL cases – Mussa Dankwah

Mussa Dankwah

The Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, Mussa Dankwah, has proposed that cases under Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) should be transferred to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) for investigation.

According to him, the Special Prosecutor is the best person to handle the cases to ensure continuity even when the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not in power after four years.

“I am not a lawyer but I understand enough to make suggestions on how to proceed with ORAL having witnessed the legal gymnastics in this country. We can't assume that NDC will win the 2028 elections and we can't wait for the Attorney General's role to be split from that of state prosecution. These ORAL cases will travel beyond the 4-year term and therefore there is a risk of nolle prosequi to be filed in 2029 if NDC does not win the 2028 elections.

“As a result, I think the Attorney General should resource and strengthen the OSP to take on several of these potential political ORAL cases so that we can be assured that those trials will continue beyond the government's term,” Mussa Dankwah shared in a Facebook post on Tuesday, February 11.

This comes after the ORAL Committee chaired by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa presented the cases put together by the committee to President John Dramani Mahama on Monday, February 10.

Subsequently, the President handed the cases to the Attorney-General for onward investigation and prosecution immediately.

For Mussa Dankwah, the surest bet to ensure the continuation of prosecutions is to use the OSP.

This, he argues will avoid accusations of a political witch hunt since the OPS is a former government appointee and secondly to ensure that prosecutions will continue even if there is a change of government.