According to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Cecilia Dapaah, a former minister for water resources and sanitation, had enormous sums of money in her accounts.
The OSP is cited as saying that funds totaling $5,000,000 and $48,000,000,000 Ghana cedis were discovered in a Prudential Bank account owned by the former Minister in an exclusive report by Accra-based Joy News.
Additionally, it discovered 700,000 in cash and 1 million cedis in investments in her Societe General account.
According to information from Kissi Agyebeng’s office, $590,000 in cash was found there during the search of her Abelemkpe home.
The same home also yielded the discovery of $2,730,000 in cash.
According to Joy News, OSP has frozen the former Minister’s cedi and dollar accounts while they conduct additional inquiries.
On July 26, the OSP detained Cecilia Abena Dapaah and searched her residence at Cantonments, where she served as a sector minister.
Additionally, her private residence in Abelemkpe, Accra, where the alleged theft occurred between July and October 2022, was searched.
According to sources, the OSP has submitted a motion to confirm the frozen bank accounts as well as the seized funds it took from the former minister’s home.
In connection with this, two more people have been detained in relation to the former Minister’s theft of a million dollars from her Accra home by domestic staff.
The case prosecutor, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Emmanuel Nyamekye, disclosed that two additional suspects had been detained in connection with the alleged theft of valuable items and money from the home of former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband, Mr. Daniel Osei Kuffour, during a hearing at the Accra Circuit Court presided over by Judge Afia Owusu Appiah on August 2.
Patience Botwe, 18, and Sarah Agyei, 30, had already been charged with five counts of theft and conspiracy to commit a crime in connection with the case.
In addition, Benjamin Sowah, Kwaku Botwe, and Malik Dauda were accused of receiving the allegedly stolen money dishonestly.
Patience Botwe and Sarah Agyei, the main suspects, were charged with stealing the personal items belonged to Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah. Numerous clothing items worth Gh95,000, handbags, perfumes, and jewelry worth US$95,000 were among the stolen goods.
In addition, it was claimed that Ms. Botwe had taken six pieces of Kente fabric worth GH$90,000 and six sets of men’s suits worth US$3,000 from the former minister’s husband.
