Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu has explained the rationale behind their petition to Parliament to investigate EOCO. Martin Kpebu with former Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo, University of Ghana’s Prof Ransford Gyampo and other Ghanaians petitioned Parliament to investigate EOCO.
EOCO dropped a money laundering case against former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah, forwarded to it by the Office of the Special Prosecutor claiming there was no basis to conduct an investigation.
However, Martin Kpebu explained that contrary to EOCO’s claim, there are details in the docket sent by the OSP to EOCO that created grounds for suspicion. He said EOCO ignored the red flags and dropped the case, thus their decision to petition Parliament.
According to Martin Kpebu, one of the person’s involved in the case is the niece of Cecilia Dapaah’s husband, Daniel Osei-Kuffour, explained how she brought the $200,000 into the country. Martin Kpebu revealed the unnamed niece revealed in her statement that she shared the money in bits of $10,000 among the passengers she boarded the flight with.
“She wrote in her statement that when she was coming to Ghana, she distributed the $200,000 dollars in bits of $10,000 to some of the passengers on the plane she boarded. And upon arrival in Ghana, she retrieved the monies from them. Such cock and bull story. It is in the docket and Tiwaa[Executive Director, EOCO] says there is nothing to prosecute?” Martin Kpebu remarked.
He went on to explain that their mission with the petition is to ensure EOCO does not abandon its duties. Mr Kpebu said they want Parliament to set up a committee to investigate EOCO’s decision to abandon its duty to investigate the former Minister.
“We want Parliament to set up a bipartisan committee to investigate how EOCO reneged on its duty to investigate Cecilia Dapaah.”
He argued that the amount of money that was recovered by the Office of the Special Prosecutor at Cecilia Dapaah’s house points to money laundering and must be investigated.
“When we see money of this quantum in the home it points to money laundering, so go into the sources of the income,”
