Private Legal Practitioner and Former Minister of Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini, has said that the 2025 half-year report of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) does not exonerate the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah.
He said that a subsequent investigation may find wrongdoing on her part.
“The issuance of this report does not necessarily exonerate Cecilia Dapaah from any wrongdoing. Subsequent investigations may still nail her to the crime of money laundering or corruption,” he said on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, August 23.
For his part, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato said the 2025 half-year report of the Office of the Special Prosecutor has vindicated the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah.
Dr Zaato believes that some people were just determined to get Madam Dapaah jailed at all costs.
“The OSP’s report has vindicated our long-held view that Cecilia Dapaah did not steal public money. Some people were clearly determined to get this woman jailed,” he also said on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, August 23.
His comments come at a time when the Office of the Special Prosecutor said that after nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the Office and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption was found in respect of seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Ms. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, and her associates.
It is recalled that the Office commenced an investigation in July 2023 in respect of suspected corruption and corruption-related offences regarding large amounts of money and other valuable items involving Ms. Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her associates.
The OSP, in its half-year report for 2025, said:
“After nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the Office and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption was found in respect of seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to Ms. Dapaah and her associates – though the investigation identified strong indications of suspected money laundering and structuring, beyond the direct mandate of the Office.”
