The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has stated that the posture of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) shows that they were not interested in investigating the money laundering allegations levelled against former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
The OSP handed the docket of the former minister to EOCO for onward probe but EOCO’s Executive Director, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah in a media interaction at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa on Monday, divulged that the docket has been returned to the OSP.
She claimed that whatever they “would have done had already been directed at the police CID.”
However, the Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Mr. Samuel Appiah Darko, reacted by stating that EOCO simply doesn’t want to investigate and prosecute the former minister.
“The second point I want to make is this whole idea that the docket that the OSP sent to EOCO was baseless and if you will indulge me, I am going to be a bit detailed. Although we are not supposed to do this but our point is that if there is no appetite to want to investigate and prosecute, tell the people of Ghana that there is no appetite but don’t try to put the blame on the OSP,” he Appiah Darko stated.
He also debunked claims that the OSP had cleared the former minister.
“The AG saying that we had cleared Cecilia Dapaah of any offence is also not accurate because the OSP has never cleared Cecilia Dapaah because when you say you have cleared someone, it means that you have investigated and come to the conclusion.”