Office Of The Special Prosecutor Under Pressure To Investigate

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is under serious pressure from the public to investigate and if possible, prosecute the former minister Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah who resigned over the alleged stolen of huge sums of money in different denominations from her her house by her house helps.

Social commentators and social media users have been calling on the OSP to take up the matter before it gets cold.

Myjoyonline source at the OSP responded to calls on whether the calls have come to the attention of the Office, saying “they have not stopped coming” since the case came to public attention last week.

While some are happy she has already resigned, many think the quoted amount, in excess of $1m that she allegedly kept at home, is too much to be her personal money she earned genuinely.

Madam Dapaah resigned from office at the weekend after she became the talk of town following media publications that her two house helps were standing trial for allegedly stealing huge sums of foreign and local currencies from her residence in Accra.

In her resignation letter, she said she decided to step down because she did not want “this matter to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government at such a crucial time.”

The house helps, 18-year-old Patience Botwe and 30-year-old Sarah Agyei, along with three others allegedly stole $1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghanaian cedis being the monies and personal effects of Abena Dapaah and her husband, between the months of July and October 2022.

However, Cecilia Dapaah says there are inaccuracies in the figures being reported in the media.

“Whereas I can state emphatically that those figures do not represent correctly what my husband and I reported to the Police, I am very much aware of the import of such stories around someone in my position.”

“I intend to cooperate fully with all state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts. I have no doubt whatsoever that at the end of the processes, it will be fully established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations that have filled the public domain in the past 24 hours.”

President Akufo-Addo has subsequently accepted her resignation and expressed the desire that the Minister’s integrity would remain intact after any probe.

“I am confident, like you, that, at the end of the day, your integrity, whilst in office, will be fully established. I wish you the very best in all your endeavours.”

He also said, “It is with considerable regret that I accept your resignation, and I applaud your loyalty to the image and standing of the government.

“The work you undertook during your period in government was excellent and productive, and I thank you for your wholehearted contribution and devotion to the progress of the government and the nation,” he stated.