Cecilia Dapaah’s Saga: Akufo-Addo’s ‘your integrity will be restored comment’ was needless – Appiah-Kubi

The Member of Parliament for the Asante Akim North constituency and a member of the petitioners asking the Speaker of Parliament to probe the conduct of EOCO in Cecilia Dapaah’s cash saga, Andy Appiah-Kubi, has asserted that President Akufo-Addo’s comments upon receipt of Cecilia Dapaah’s resignation letter were needless.

According to him, the comments by the President have fueled speculations that state institutions have connived to shield the embattled former Sanitation Minister, describing them as “unnecessary.”

He said the extra-judicial commentaries surrounding the case have not been helpful, stressing that issues of national interest should not be politicised.

Speaking on The Key Points yesterday [Saturday, May 18], the Asante Akim North legislator noted that the case involving the former minister has “no political colours.”

“In most cases, when issues of national interest come up, the best way to dissolve it is to make it partisan, so that it becomes a war between supporters of this party and supporters of that party,” he said.

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President Akufo-Addo, in a letter dated July 22, 2023, acknowledging Madam Dapaah’s resignation, noted, among other things, that he is confident that “at the end of the day, your integrity whilst in office will be fully established.”

“The extra-judicial pronouncements…the President’s statement upon receipt of the resignation was needless, and I still stand by that. We are getting to a position where people are even making references to that statement as the prediction that state institutions have been encouraged to justify.”

“If that statement didn’t come, where will this so-called justification have been met? So, it was unnecessary,” he emphasised.

Additionally, Mr. Appiah-Kubi maintained that the apparent turf war witnessed between state institutions in Cecilia Dapaah’s alleged money laundering case was unfortunate.

He underscored that it is worrying to witness state institutions mandated to fight corruption engage in shifting blame onto one another.

Meanwhile, over 100 Ghanaians across various professtions have petitioned the office of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin to among other things, constitute a bipartisan probe into EOCO’s failure to discharge its constitutional mandate in investigating alleged money laundering cases.

Mr. Appiah-Kubi and some prominent Ghanaians, including former Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo, outspoken anti-graft campaigner Martin Kpebu, security analyst Dr Adam Bona, academic Professor Ransford Gyampo, argue in their petition that EOCO had more than enough basis to investigate the former Minister for money laundering as she has been inconsistent and unable to provide the source over the huge amount of money seized at her residence by the Special Prosecutor.

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