The Minority in Parliament has advised its members summoned by the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee not to honour the invitation.
According to the caucus, the ORAL committee has no legal right to invite them to answer questions.
Addressing a press conference today, Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the Member of Parliament for Suame, John Darko, alleged that the ORAL team has been vandalising people’s homes to seize their legally acquired properties.
He also alleged that ORAL was set up to persecute former appointees of the previous government.
The lawmaker stated that there are constitutional bodies that can investigate any form of corruption levelled against all former appointees.
“Our advice to you from the Minority is to boycott any invitation from the ORAL team. We are not going to be part of it because we believe that there are constitutionally established bodies that investigate any so-called misdeeds for the government.
“What they (ORAL) are doing is going about disturbing people, entering homes, seizing vehicles, and more or less taking over lands from people who have genuinely purchased them,” Darko alleged.
He added “What the former government officials have done is to acquire properties that legally, they will acquire. No illegality has taken place,” he added, accusing members of the current administration of equally obtaining properties that hitherto belonged to the state.
“In any case, the NDC, their members have also acquired lands in this country. The executive, Okudzeto Ablakwa and co., they live in the Cantonments; they live in the Airports; they live in the Tse-Addos, lands that were government lands, which they bought many years ago. The people of Ghana should not tolerate this ORAL, which is out there only to persecute the former government officials,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana