Cecilia Dapaah Saga: EOCO should tell its inability to prosecute to the marines – Domelevo

Daniel Yao Domelevo, a former Auditor-General, has expressed discontent about the inability of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to investigate the alleged money laundering case involving the former Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah.

Mr. Domelevo indicated that there’s no justification for EOCO’s apparent failure to investigate the case that the Special Prosecutor forwarded to it.

He said EOCO should rather tell the marines about its inability to probe the matter than the discerning Ghanaians.

The Executive Director of EOCO, COP Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, while addressing the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa on Monday, May 6, said her outfit intends to return the docket to the OSP because there is nothing to investigate.

This follows advice from the office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice emphasising that there was nothing for EOCO to investigate in the matter brought before it by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.

However, EOCO, in a statement issued on May 7, confirmed that Madam Dapaah’s docket was returned to the OSP on May 3.

Anti-corruption campaigners have criticised EOCO for its lack of interest in probing the case further to establish the source of Madam Dapaah’s money which were retrieved from her Abelemkpe residence.

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The former Auditor-General, Mr Domelevo, speaking on The Key Points on Saturday, May 18, could not hide his frustrations with state institutions failing the people of Ghana in the fight against corruption.

According to him, EOCO could go beyond their limits if they were interested in investigating the former Sanitation Minister.

“EOCO is one institution that at times go beyond their mandate,” he said, indicating that when his office—Auditor-General—was investigating senior minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo in the Kroll and Associates case, “quickly EOCO decided to investigate me for alleged procurement offences when they themselves know that the public procurement law, the head of independent constitutional bodies are not part of the entity tender committee.”

Responding to whether or not EOCO’s side of the story that there is nothing to investigate is believable, Mr Domelevo mince no words, saying, “In fact they themselves don’t even believe the story they are telling us and they can say those [stories] to the marines but I don’t think anybody will believe EOCO.”

He added, “The inconsistencies in how they are narrating the money was generated and brought about and the sheer volume of the money itself leaves a whole lot of questions.”

Meanwhile, over 100 Ghanaians across various professions have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament to constitute a bipartisan inquiry into the actions of EOCO.

Among the petitioners are private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu, former Aditior-General Daniel Domelevo, and Professor Ransford Gyampo.

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