Former Minister of State, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, holds the opinion that the Attorney General and the Chairman of the ORAL Committee cannot be exempt in the search for who has really caused financial loss to the state.
He makes this point because the Attorney General has since taking over power discontinued some cases that he believes should have been left to be tried because they involved huge sums of money.
Prof. Kwesi Yankah mentions the “tragic sight of a sprawling affordable housing township, from a project meant to provide 5000 housing units; a monumental scandal of scandals called Saglemi within the jurisdiction of beloved Sam George whom I once met at Central U along with Hon Afoley Quaye.
Does it move Uncle Sam and ORAL Ablakwa, that the tax payers’ 200m dollars has been washed down the drain (or rather the throat), and that wrong-doers have been acquitted by the stroke of AG’s pen? That 271 million U.S. dollars has been lost to the tax payer in fertilizer transactions, and the case has been dropped by A-G’s pen? Then nearly 2.5 million Euros is wasted from an executive scam on ambulances that turned out to be cinema vans; and many more cases of ORAL loot, abandoned for Zoomlion?”.
To him, the chairman of the ORAL team should have taken up these cases as they also amount to causing financial loss to the state considering the sums involved and the questions persons involved need to answer.
Yet they claim to have been done with their work and are jubilating because they have discovered a bumper harvest of thieves.
“Within the twinkle of an eye, the ORAL people have finished their work and submitted their cavity report. Serial handshakes and congratulations are still ongoing. The ORAL harvest has been monumental: two thousand four hundred cases, 36 top priorities, and billions of dollars saved for the tax payer. A cheerful JDM suspends his thank-you tour, and receives the golden files which are relayed to Attorney-General Ayine. A huge celebration begins ahead of a bumper harvest of thieves,” he said.
