The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema Central, Charles Forson, has questioned the Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine’s competence and accused the government of paying “lip service” to the fight against corruption.
Speaking on Starr FM’s Morning Show, Morning Starr, on Friday, April 17, 2026, the lawmaker expressed deep frustration over the lack of significant prosecutions under the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) which promised to retrieve over $21 billion in state funds allegedly looted by officers of the erstwhile Akufo-Addo government.
The lawmaker claimed that despite being in office for several months, the Attorney General has failed to secure major convictions.
This, he said, has caused the President to express dissatisfaction with the pace of legal actions.
”For the President to come out to cry and say, ‘Okay, now I will source those prosecutions to independent lawyers,’ why would the President say that? The man [Dr. Ayine] is only interested in engaging the media houses… Nothing is showing,” he said.
Forson further argued that the current system where the Attorney General maintains a monopoly on prosecutions is fundamentally flawed.
He thus proposed a decentralized “Ombudsman” system to ensure accountability at every level of government.
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“We need to have a special office to prosecute without recourse to the Attorney General. We need an ombudsman at the national level. We need an ombudsman at the constitutional level and even at the district level. It’s very important,” he suggested.
The Tema Central MP cautioned that if the current prosecutorial structure remains unchanged, the promised crackdowns on corruption will yield nothing by the end of the current administration’s term.
“I mean, NDC will leave power come 2028, and then you see that nobody has been prosecuted,” Forson warned. The so-called ORAL will be just lip service, I must say,” he said.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
