Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, has said that the way and manner the case involving the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has been handled is shameful.
To him, the banter between the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on this matter is shameful.
“This is a clear example that this country is not serious about fighting corruption. For this woman still to be walking around freely with EOCO and OSP banging their heads together is shameful, it does not give any body the desire to help fight corruption.
“The case gets twisted everyday, explanations don’t add up different stories are being told all the time,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday May 18 while commenting on the petition to Parliament to look into the case of large sums of money found in the home of Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
“This case stinks, it looks like a clear corruption,” he added.
Some prominent Ghanaians including former Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo 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 Cecilia Dapaah.
According to the group, which also has, outspoken anti-graft campaigner Martin Kpebu, Security analyst Dr Adam Bonaa, 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 corner stone of the investigation,” the petition which was submitted to Parliament on Thursday May 16, 2024, noted among others.
“Upon receipt of the docket, EOCO did not act timeously to seize the money that the OSP was returning to Madam Cecilia Dapaah as publicly 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.
