Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, a former Minister of Parliamentary Affairs has quizzed the authority and mandate of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team.
According to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, what authority do the ORAL team have to write letters to people who have looted the state?
He asserted that Ghana is not in a coup regime, and everything should resort to due process.
He noted that the ORAL team are alleging looting which already established criminality against individuals.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 on Friday, January 17, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu asserted, “If you’re alleging looting, already you’ve established criminality against individuals. Is that what the Constitution provides? A person is deemed innocent until proven guilty. You’re saying that the person has looted, you’ve written a letter to the person, what authority do you have to do that?”.
“You’re shredding the image of the person and yet you’ve not established through any due process, the fact that the person has engaged in any criminality. Not because there is a new regime, but because there is no coup in Ghana. We are not in a coup regime. Everything, we should resort to due process”, he added.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu further revealed, “A person has a right to own his property. If you think that he used unorthodox means to acquire the property, let’s resort to due process and retrieve it for the state. But you don’t take this into your own hands to say that at the very outset, you’ve established criminality and the person has looted even before the person probably investigated and tried. What kind of system is that?”
