NPP bigwigs quietly visiting EOCO, CID daily over ORAL cases

NDC communicator Matthias Kabila

NDC communicator Matthias Kabila has claimed that several leading NPP functionaries are quietly visiting the headquarters of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) daily because of investigations into cases submitted under the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative.

Kabila said he understood why the NPP was uncomfortable with the continued mention of Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in the diplomatic and service passport controversy, arguing that Ablakwa played a major role in championing ORAL.

According to him, Ablakwa travelled across Ghana and even to the United States to expose alleged dubious schemes and crimes that cost the state billions of cedis.

“I can understand the pain of the NPP because Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa actually championed ORAL. He travelled across this country, even to the United States, to uncover dubious schemes, crimes that made the state lose billions of Ghana cedis,” Kabila said.

He further claimed that several leading NPP figures were quietly reporting to EOCO and CID headquarters daily as investigations into some of the ORAL cases continued.

Kabila acknowledged that not all the cases submitted under ORAL were being investigated but insisted that significant ones were receiving attention.

He also argued that the government was not doing enough to hold former appointees of the Akufo-Addo administration accountable.

“I believe that we are not doing enough to hold the feet of Akufo-Addo’s appointees to the fire of accountability,” he stated.