Former Auditor-General and a member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, Daniel Domelovo, has 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 Tuesday, Mr Domelovo expressed deep frustration over what he described as the “snail pace” of ongoing anti-corruption efforts under the Attorney-General’s office.
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.”
He added that “in fact, the prayer of the culprits and their lawyers is that there should be a change in government. Then you hear nolle prosequi.”
According to Mr Domelovo, the slow pace of investigations and prosecutions signals a lack of preparedness and urgency on the part of the government to deliver on its anti-corruption promises.
“It begs one question: were they prepared before coming to office? Because when I look at the quantum of money we should recover and the snail speed at which we are moving, I wonder when we are going to get there,” he lamented.
He cautioned that without visible progress in holding corrupt officials accountable, citizens may begin to lose confidence in the administration’s reset agenda.
“I think we have to change the speed at which we are moving and let people gain the confidence that things are moving and moving very fast.”
His remarks come in response to a series of press briefings by Attorney-General Dominic Ayine on updates on corruption cases, but have yielded few tangible prosecutions.
The former Auditor-General was also a member of the Operation Recover All Loot team that was put together by President John Dramani Mahama before he fully assumed office.
The team presented a huge document to the Attorney-General on possible cases of corruption after its initial investigations.
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