Prof. Ransford Gyampo has suggested that former Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, be temporarily left off the hook on the matter regarding the stashed sums of monies discovered in her room.
He says since crime has no expiry, the next government can institute probe into the matter since this administration has purportedly to chosen to make nonsense out of the case.
According to him, President Akufo-Addo’s letter to the former minister is a prejudgement of the matter, and none of the state institutions want to embark on anything that would bring a contrary outcome of the matter.
He has therefore asked that the woman be left alone in the meantime, so that a new government prosecutes the matter.
Speaking with Alfred Ocansey on the KeyPoints Saturday, May 11, 2024, Prof. Gyam, who has described President Akufo-Addo as a “political King Kong” said “and so, in my view, let Cecilia Dapaah be temporarily left off the hook in the belief that there is no expiry dates to crime and in the hope that the next regime that takes over would revisit this matter. You see, if we don’t adopt this posture, I’m telling you, everything we are doing now would amount to romancing a stone. It has no feeling.”
“So, whatever we are doing, we are pussyfooting the problem and romancing a stone. We create an impression as if Special Prosecutor is doing something, as if the EOCO is doing something, and all of a sudden, Attorney-General who birthed the Special Prosecutor is also taking contradictory position to the position of Special Prosecutor in that kind of child’s play,” he stated.
Prof. Gyampo’s comments come on the back of the President’s statement on the Cecilia Dapaah cash saga which he says has affected how the investigations should have been carried out.
After her resignation as Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources following her missing cash scandal, President Akufo-Addo in the resignation acceptance letter disclosed that he was confident she was going to be exonerated.
“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,” the President said in his letter.
The Attorney-General then advised the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) against conducting investigation into the money laundering aspect of the scandal.
The matter was referred to the EOCO by the Office of the Special Prosecutor who said its mandate was limited with regards to investigating money laundering.
EOCO subsequently returned the dockets to the OSP after it said the Attorney-General’s advice forbids them from carrying out any probe.
