A Communication Team Member of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC’s) UK/Ireland branch, Dr. Caesar Agana has described as a hoax investigations into the huge volumes of monies former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources stashed in her home.
Speaking in an interview on State of Our Nation, Dr. Agana said the Akufo-Addo government has no interest in prosecuting Ms. Dapaah or any member of the government accused of involvement in criminal and corrupt acts thus, the investigation launched into the matter will amount to nothing.
“This government is known to hold on into cases that have to do with their people and rather look for trivial cases that have no bearing in our country in which the Attorney General himself wears gown to sit in court and fight cases that make no sense and meaning to the Ghanaian people because it’s not from their own.
So yes, she has been arrested, an investigation has been launched. But this case is going to go know nowhere”.
The probe by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), he argued, is just an attempt to salvage what he said is the government’s soiled image and to hoodwink the populace into believing that the government is serious about tackling corruption.
“It’s a hoax. They are just trying to throw dust into the eyes of the people to let it seem that something is being done about the matter”
“The NPP has been hit so hard and the integrity of their party and their persons is all time low.
So they are trying to salvage what’s left. They are trying to pick up the pieces of what is left. So what they could is to ask her to resign and also the Special Prosecutor goes in there to enforce an arrest”.
Dr. Agana said this in reaction to the arrest of the former minister by the OSP.
Cecilia Dapaah, who resigned after revelation that she stashed millions of cash in foreign and local currencies in her Abelemkpe residence, was on Monday picked up by officers of the OSP for interrogation.
She also had her official and private residences searched by investigators.
The investigators are said to have discovered something “substantial” during the search at her home. The OSP has indicated that it is still probing the matter and briefed the public of its findings in due time.
Meanwhile, the Attorney-General has also taken an interest in the matter and has since directed police, who were investigating a case of theft of the cash reported by the former minister and her husband, to probe the source of the monies.
But this, Dr. Agana is convinced, will amount to nothing useful.
