By The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Samuel Appiah Darko, revealed that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has already returned the docket concerning former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
Mr. Darko clarified during an interview with Bernard Avle, the host of the Citi Breakfast Show on Citi FM, that EOCO’s statements regarding the intention to return the docket are inaccurate, as the return has already taken place.
“Let me start with what EOCO said yesterday [Monday, May 6] that they were going to return the docket to the OSP, that is not accurate. They have long returned the docket to us with an explanation that they have been advised by the AG [Attorney General] not to investigate but remember, we did not say to prosecute, [to] investigate and so I don’t understand why EOCO will say they are now going to return the docket to OSP.”
Mr. Darko additionally refuted assertions that the docket forwarded to EOCO was unfounded, asserting that EOCO is demonstrating a lack of interest in investigating the matter and instead seeking to attribute fault to the OSP.
During her address to the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa on Monday, the Executive Director of EOCO, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, revealed her organization’s intention to return the docket. She explained that this decision stemmed from the belief that there was nothing further they could do regarding the case.
“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.”
