Board Chairman of the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), Daniel Yao Domelevo, has explained that his recent comments regarding the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) and the government’s general handling of prosecutions were taken out of context.
The former Auditor-General and a member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, accused the government of dragging its feet in the prosecution of corrupt former public officials, nine months after assuming office.
Speaking in an interview on with KSM, Mr Domelovo expressed deep frustration over what he described as the “snail pace” of ongoing anti-corruption efforts under the Attorney-General’s office.
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He warned that the delay could erode public trust in the administration’s commitment to accountability.
“With the briefing that the Attorney General has been giving, a lot of work is going on, but am I satisfied? No. I can’t see the end of the tunnel, not to talk of the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.
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“The procedure currently being used is very slow. Nine months is not small. Before we realise, we’ll be done with the quarter.”
But speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, October 11, Mr Domelevo explained that his remarks were not intended to criticise the government or question its commitment to prosecuting corruption-related cases in the ORAL document.
Rather, he said, his point was to highlight the importance of timely action in addressing such matters to maintain public confidence.
“I think what I said has been taken out of context because almost all of what you have listened to is an excerpt that KSM put out, not the full interview,” he clarified.
He added, “If you had listened to the full interview, I acknowledged the work being done by AG, EOCO, OSP and all others. And I even said that I am not satisfied, not because I was expecting that convictions would have been made by now or monies would have been recovered by now, but my dissatisfaction is about the legal system, the framework of fighting corruption.”
Listen to his reaction in the video below.
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