Two housekeepers of Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffour, are accused of stealing money and other items worth millions of Ghana Cedis from the couple’s home in Abelemkpe, Accra.
They are being prosecuted before an Accra Circuit Court.
The accused, Patience Botwe, 18, and Sarah Agyei, 30, are accused of stealing the couple’s money and possessions between July and October 2022.
US$1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghanaian cedis are among the stolen goods.
The Chronicle newspaper reported that Sarah was a former house help and that Patience, also known as Maabena, was a house help for the complainants.
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The couple later discovered some of their possessions were missing after Kuffour caught Patience hiding in their bedroom.
Patience was remanded into legal custody along with her purported boyfriends and father.
Because she is a nursing mother, Sarah was granted bail; her bail requirement is GH$1,000,000 with 2 sureties.
Following this, Ghanaians have taken to social media to react massively after the news broke into the internet.
Here are some reactions sampled by InsightNewsgh.com on Twitter;
Ex boyfriend .. He must have been an exceptional Ex…
😭😭😭😭Cecilia Dapaah’s house-help gave 1 million cedis to her ex boyfriend and 50,000 to her dad https://t.co/TaJZZjoU8G via @247newsgh.com
— BO1 (@Bridget_Otoo) July 21, 2023
Wow! I’m speechless on a Friday morning
Wow$1 million, €300K, and millions of Ghana Cedis stolen from Minister Cecilia Dapaah’s home https://t.co/pbpKoc4Mgi via @247newsgh.com
— BO1 (@Bridget_Otoo) July 21, 2023
Cecilia Dapaah had $1 million, €300k, & over GHC 100 million at home, meanwhile:
•NSS personnel unpaid
•Free SHS Food suppliers unpaid & crying
•Trainee Allowance unpaid
•Road Contractors unpaidImagine how much is hidden in a vault by Addo D, Bawumia and co! Thieves! pic.twitter.com/pdxyw45GIu
— Albert Nat Hyde (@BongoIdeas) July 21, 2023
Ah are you guys saying Cecilia Dapaah cannot genuinely have $1 million, €300,000 and millions of cedis ????
This is her CV guys let’s stop this! pic.twitter.com/zu8zTpWoYS
— Akosua Journalist (@Iam_aJournalist) July 21, 2023
So Cecilia Dapaah had 140 Billion old cedis in her house in Cash. She is not our Financial Minister oo. She is the Sanitation Minister pic.twitter.com/ACC4d6hTej
— TWO TERTY (@TwoTerty_) July 21, 2023
You don't pay Nurses and Doctors well and you still want them to stay in this country while one Cecilia Dapaah has all this money in her house. pic.twitter.com/VqoTJk4OLh
— 🤓NII-IKE🐳🇪🇺🇬🇭 (@NII_IKE77) July 21, 2023
Cecilia Dapaah’s house helps before the money heist 😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/6VZPr7kmbw
— monáe 𓅓 🇺🇸 (@PhillyMonae) July 21, 2023
People get money for Ghana here ooo
Cecilia Dapaah ein house k3k3 she get 1m dollars, imagine her bank account😂😂😂😂— Waakye Ne Bibiaa 3cedis🇬🇭 (@KwekuMarch) July 21, 2023
Nana Addo’s Minister, Cecilia Dapaah kept more than 16,000,000 at home and the money has been stolen by her domestic workers.
While those who kept their monies at the bank are receiving haircut.
This is how karma will pay those who gang-rape this nation.— Beatrice Annan (@Beatrice_Annan1) July 21, 2023
So Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah had 140 Billion old cedis in her house eiii, I wonder what Finance Minister get
— Twilight (@the_marcoli_boy) July 21, 2023
Where did Cecilia Dapaah get all those millions from? Are Ghanaians going to let that slide too? How much is her salary?
— Receipts Guy (@receiptsguy) July 21, 2023
Meanwhile, further investigations showed that Patience and her alleged boyfriends used the stolen money to rent an apartment in Tamale, buy a car, and spend a lot of money on various items.
Additionally, Sarah built a three-bedroom house with her share of the funds, which is where she was later detained.
The case has been postponed until August 2, 2023, in order to continue the proceedings.
In a related news, former Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama has expressed shock over an amount of US$1 million, €300,000, and other millions of Ghana cedis stolen from the residence of Mrs. Cecilia Dapaah, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, and her husband, Mr. Daniel Osei Kuffour, in Abelemkpe, Accra.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 presidential flagbearer in a tweet described the news of such money kept in the home of the Minister as “scandalous”.
