By Iddi Yire
Cape Coast, Feb 06, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama says he will be receiving the report of the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) next week.
ORAL was set-up by President Mahama to gather information on corruption, which will be passed on to the appropriate government institutions for further investigation.
“Next week, the ORAL Committee that I set up is going to present its report to me, and I’ll refer it to the investigative organisations to start their investigations against people who have misappropriated the resources of this nation.”
President Mahama said this in his address in Cape Coast at a durbar of the Chiefs and People of the Central Region during his Thank You Tour.
The nationwide tour, which began on Friday, January 24, in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital is to enable the President to express his sincere appreciation to the people of Ghana for the overwhelming support and trust reposed in him at the 2024 elections.
The President on Wednesday, February 05, addressed a similar durbar in Secondi for the Western Region.
Speaking at the Jubilee Park in Cape Coast, President Mahama said his administration would work for the benefit of all Ghanaians and not just a few.
“We’re not just going to build roads and schools. We’re going to build a better future for our children, the next generation in all posterity.” The President said.
“But we can’t do that without being accountable to the people who voted us into power.”
President Mahama said his administration was going to implement a very strict system of accountability, adding that they would soon come out with a code of conduct for persons who occupy positions of trust.
“We are not going to pursue only members of the past regime to account to the people of Ghana,” he said.
“We’re going to pursue our own people to make sure that they are held accountable to the people of Ghana.”
He said even as they investigate those who had just left office, current office bearers should also know that they would be held to the same standard as they were holding the past regime.
Using a popular Ghanaian proverb to admonish his appointees, the President said: “the stick that is used to beat Takyi, is the same stick that will be used on Baah”.
He urged all Ghanaians to support his vision of “building the Ghana that they would be all proud of; saying, “a Ghana where opportunity and prosperity are available to all, regardless of where we live or where we come from”.
Odeefo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, Omanhene of Breman Asikuma Traditional Area and President of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, on behalf of his colleagues extended congratulations to President Mahama on his landslide victory in the December 7 polls.
Osabarimba Kwesi Atta II, the Oguaamanhen, assured President Mahama of the support of the Central Region.
GNA