By The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has accused the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) of showing disinterest in investigating the money laundering allegations against former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
OSP forwarded its docket on the former minister to EOCO for further action. However, EOCO’s Executive Director, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, revealed during a media interaction at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa that steps were being taken to return the docket to the OSP.
Madam Addo-Danquah stated that any actions they could have taken had already been directed to the police CID, leaving her outfit with no further action to pursue.
Samuel Appiah Darko, the Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), asserted that EOCO lacks the willingness 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,” Mr Darko added.
He also rejected 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 that no offence has been committed.”
