The Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee has submitted its report to President John Dramani Mahama following almost two months of work.

The committee was set by the President as a preparatory team tasked with gathering information from the public and other sources on suspected corruption cases towards the rollout of ORAL proper.

Detailing the report, ORAL Chairman and Minister for Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa disclosed the team had received a total of 2417 complaints out of which 1493 came via automatically-recorded phone calls and 924 by emails.

He noted 36 out of 230 reviewed cases in ORAL's report which "we have reviewed in detail, if we're successful in recoveries, we can retrieve as much as US$20.49 billion and that's from National Cathedral, PDS, SML, GNPC Saltpond Decommissioning...

"We've also done an estimate of the state capture, the lands, if we successfully ask people to pay conservative market value for the lands they have looted, again the experts tell us we can recover about US$702.8 million for the Ghanaian people."

"In all, potentially, we can raise about US$21.19 billion and that is far more than we have been chasing the IMF for and subjecting ourselves to all kinds of conditionalities," Ablakwa emphasised.

He said ORAL assisted by National Security had prevented the demolition of 50 bungalows by private investors, some belonging to the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Gender, Children & Social Protection, and the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).

He underlined, "All Ghanaians have been deeply outraged at the levels of corruption and dissipation of state assets and resources and they expect His Excellency John Dramani Mahama to fulfil his campaign mandate of recovering what truly belongs to the Ghanaian people."

When President Mahama received the "comprehensive" ORAL report, he pledged his unwavering commitment to taking the necessary actions to recover the stated funds. He said the report had been handed over to the Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine, for further action, assuring all monies recovered will be returned to state coffers.