An appointee under the Akufo-Addo administration is said to have kept a whopping amount of US$1 million, €300,000 and millions of Ghana cedis at her residence in Abelemkpe, a suburb of Accra.
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffour is said to have such an amount of money in their home which was subsequently stolen.
The people who stole the money are said to be house helps of the Minister. This was revealed at an Accra Circuit Court reported by the Chronicle Newspaper in its Friday, July 21, 2023 edition.
The accused Patience Botwe, 18, and Sarah Agyei, 30, are said to have engaged in the stealing of the couple’s money and personal belongings between July and October 2022.
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The first defendant, (A1) Patience, is being brought before the same court alongside her father, as well as her present and former lovers.
However, Patience alone took six pieces of Kente cloth costing GH90,000 and six sets of men’s clothes worth US$3,000 over the same time period which are said to have belonged to the minister’s husband.
Benjamin (A3), a 29-year-old plumber, Kweku Botwe (A4), a 65-year-old businessman, and Malik Dauda (A5), a 23-year-old unemployed man, have all been accused of stealing the couple of GH1 million and GH180,000, respectively.
The money indicated was taken from a bedroom that Cecilia Abena Dapaah shares with her husband, as was previously established, and is all property of the two.
On Thursday, July 20, 2023, Susana Ekuful, the judge of an Accra Circuit Court, heard the trial of all five accused people.
Although their pleas have not yet been heard, Sarah has been granted bail in the amount of GH1,000,000 with two sureties. The sureties are required to leave their Ghana ID cards with the court’s registrar.
As she was acting as a relief judge, Her Honor Susana Ekuful added that the bail condition is subject to reconsideration by the substantive judge.
Patience had been remanded into legal care along with her purported lovers and father. However Sarah has been granted bail, because he is a nursing mother.
