By The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has announced its intention to return the docket concerning former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
This decision comes following advice from the Office of the Attorney General against initiating money laundering investigations into Cecilia Dapaah. The Attorney General cited the OSP’s failure to establish evidence of corruption or corruption-related offenses.
Speaking to the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa, Executive Director of EOCO, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, emphasized that there was nothing her organization could do in this regard.
“If you read the A-G’s advice, whatever that we would have done had already been directed at the police CID. And like he said this morning, when you investigate a case and you do not find anything, we should be bold enough to come and tell the public that for this case, even though I suspected this at the day, that wasn’t what came out; we should be bold the Ghanaian.
“So, we cannot continue to be fishing like you don’t even know what you are looking for. You just go about looking for something that you know that you are not even sure.
“So, what I am going to do is that with the A-G’s advice, I will send the docket that we received from the OSP to him that there is nothing in it,” she stated.
On May 1, the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice advised against initiating money laundering investigations into the activities of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah by the Economic and Organized Crime Office.
This decision was made after the Office of the Attorney General determined that the request by the Office of the Special Prosecutor to the Economic and Organised Crime Office to commence money laundering investigations into the activities of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah lacked a solid basis.
