Crime has no expiry, and Prof. Ransford Gyampo is expecting the next govern.ment that comes after 2024 to continue with the Cecilia Dapaah matter to adequately.
The University of Ghana Political Science lecturer says the President Akufo-Addo’s comments after the woman’s scandal broke, has put fear in the investigative agencies who are finding it difficult to probe the matter.
He suggests the best thing would be to let the woman be in the meantime so that the next administration that wins power takes the matter up.
Prof. Gyampo was speaking on the KeyPoints Saturday, May 11 2024, when he made the comments, likening recent developments on the matter to “romancing a stone.”
“We are romancing a stone,” he said, adding that the President’s comment was a form of clearance “given from day one and none of the heads of the state institutions responsible for helping to unearth whatever went on is interested in doing things that would go contrary to the position of the political King [Kong] and so what are we doing? We are romancing a stone. Let us leave it.”
“Let the woman be temporarily left off the hook in the hope that the next regime that takes over power would bring back the issue and deal with it according to law because we know that there is no expiry dates to crime and so whoever takes over, there is a lot of hope and expectation from Ghanaians as to what you can do and what you cannot do and we hope and believe that you will not disappoint,” he noted.
His 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.
