Kofi Iddi Adams, the Member of Parliament for Buem, is questioning the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), what influenced their decision to seek advise from the Attorney-General on the Cecilia Abena Dapaah matter.
Told by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to investigate money laundering charges against Mad. Dapaah, EOCO sought advice from A-G who said it is was not necessary to probe the woman on such charges.
Kofi Adams says the task required of the EOCO is a constitutionally mandated responsibility which did not require the counsel of another state institution before it is carried out.
For him, the decision is a ploy by the respective agencies tasked to probe the scandal to unearth the source of the sums of monies stashed in the bedroom of the former Sanitation and Water Resources minister.
The legislator questioned the essence of the advice to advance an assertion he made that the supposed disagreement amongst the respective institutions is a mere plan to defend Akufo-Addo’s statement that Cecilia Dapaah ought to go a free woman after investigations.
“What advice was EOCO seeking from the Attorney-General? To investigate, or to do what? Already OSP have told you, they have given you witness statements that should suggest to you that you must investigate and they’ve given you a direction — a line to focus on, –you say money laundering, then now you write to the Attorney General, what were you seeking to do? That he should advice you to go ahead and investigate? When his boss has already said a comforting letter, ‘my dear Cecilia, your integrity will be will be proven and so on and so forth?’ so, the president has clearly not helped this country,” he said on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, May 11, 2024.
Kofi Adam’s comments of the development with the case being an orchestration stems from 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.
