EOCO should have investigated Cecilia Dapaah case – Appiah-Kubi

Lawmaker for Asante Akim North, Kwame Andy Appiah-Kubi has said that it would have been in the interest of the former Minister of Santitation and Water Resources Cecilia Dapaah if the case of large sum of money found in her home was investigated.

He said that the investigation would have afforded her the opportunity to provide all the evidence for her to to be exonerated.

“Even if I were her I would have advised that they should go into the matter put me before court and then provide all the evidence,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday May 18.

Also commenting on the the issueon the same show, former Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, said that the petition that they have filed against the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over the matter involving the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources is seeking to know the story behind the issues.

He wondered whether the failure of EOCO to go into the matter is the prophecy of the President that is materailsing.

President Akufo-Addo had indicated that Madam Cecilia Dapaah was going to be exonerated and her integrity restored even before the matter was has handled by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

“Is this the prophecy of the president that at the end of the investigation her integrity would be restored, that is materialising?” He asked on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday May 18.

Regarding the petition to parliament to probe the mater, he said “All we are seeking to do is to know the story behind the story of Cecillia Dapaah case.”

Earlier, his co-petitioner Martin Kpebu also said that there are several issues to be investigated in this matter.

The private legal practitioner said that the issues involving the former Minister could not just be swept under the carpet.

“There are several issues to be investigated,” he said on News 360 on TV3 on Thursday, May 16.

Some prominent Ghanaians have filed a petition to Parliament seeking a bipartisan probe into the conduct of EOCO in the investigation regarding the stash of money found in the residence of Madam Cecelia Dapaah.

According to the group, which also has, outspoken anti-graft campaigner Martin Kpebu, Security analyst Dr Adam Bona, academic Professor Ransford Gyampo and over 100 other Ghanaians spanning different walks of line, argue in their petition that EOCO had more than enough basis to investigate the former Minister for money laundering as she has been inconsistent and unable to provide the source over the huge amount of money seized at her residence by the Special Prosecutor.

“The failure to explain the source of the money should have been the cornerstone of the investigation,” the petition which was submitted to Parliament on Thursday May 16, 2024, noted among others.

It also raised concerns about what the group described as the deliberate refusal by EOCO to take steps to protect the money which had been seized from residence of the former minister by the OSP.

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“Upon receipt of the docket, EOCO did not act timeously to seize the money that the OSP was returning to Madam Cecelia Dapaa as public stated by the OSP”.

The petition also said EOCO has been inconsistent with their public commentary and actions in the investigation.

The development comes in the wake of the standoff between state anti-corruption agencies investigating the former Minister over the stash of money.

The OSP is on record to have stated EOCO lacks the appetite to probe the matter despite the detailed information it shared with them.

the statement wasneedles if that statement did come where

it was uneccassry

EOCO should have inevsthagted the matter

let her have the opprotunity