Ghanaian entrepreneur and investor Dr. Sangu Delle has called on the government to honour Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) as a bold step toward ending corruption and restoring accountability in public life.
Speaking on PanaGeniusTV, a YouTube Channel monitored by KumasiMail’s Northern Regional Editor, Dr. Delle said that if the current administration fails to implement ORAL effectively, Ghana’s fight against corruption will remain hollow.
“If this government does not honour ORAL and bring about real accountability, then we are doomed,” he said.
Dr. Delle, who is Founder and CEO of CarePoint, a pan-African health group, and the Chairman of Golden Palm Investments Ltd, warned that corruption continues to undermine the country’s development by diverting resources away from essential services.
“When you take public resources, that’s what you’re depriving people of. People die. That’s why I say that when you loot and pillage, there’s blood on your hands,” he said.
He said corruption is not just a moral failure but also a political economy problem, rooted in the way politics, power, and patronage intersect in Ghana.
“Corruption in Ghana is a political economy problem,” he said. “Because of how we finance our politics, because of how we reward political loyalty, and because of the structure of our economy, corruption becomes almost systemic.”
Dr. Delle explained that politicians often enter office burdened by the expectations of financiers and supporters, which creates a cycle of dependency and misuse of public funds.
“When you have people spending millions to win an election, they come in already owing,” he said. “So the system itself is designed in a way that encourages corruption.”
He said Ghana’s development challenge will persist until the country reforms how political parties are financed and how public officers are held accountable.
“You cannot solve corruption without reforming the system that breeds it,” he said. “We need transparency in campaign financing and strong institutions that can act without fear or favour.”
Dr. Delle said his advocacy against corruption stems from his experience working closely with communities deprived of basic needs because of misused funds.
“In Nandom, my constituency, we don’t have any proper ER there. We didn’t even have oximeters, and my foundation had to go and donate that,” he said. “There’s a school I visited that had one teacher teaching JSS1 and JSS2, classrooms with no furniture, no textbooks.”
He also reflected on the political climate that led to the 2024 elections, saying he was vocal during the campaign because of widespread frustration with corruption.
“I was very active and very vocal in the campaign,” he said. “I believe that one of the biggest reasons for the unprecedented loss, the largest electoral loss in the history of the country, was around ORAL. People were so deeply angry, right? And people want justice.”
Dr. Delle said his greatest disappointment is with his own generation’s perception of success, which he believes has been distorted by corruption.
“Sometimes I am disappointed in my generation,” he said. “Because when I talk to young people, many of them think that the ones who steal are the ones who make it, not the ones who work hard.”
He called for a new national culture that celebrates integrity and service rather than theft and shortcuts.
“There’s a real consequence to all of this,” he said. “When you loot and pillage, there’s blood on your hands.”
Source: www.KumasiMail.Com/Joseph Ziem
