What came out of the FBI collaboration on Cecilia Dapaah case? – Sammy Gyamfi asks Special Prosecutor

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi is not happy with the way and manner the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OPS) handled the case involving former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah.

Sammy Gyamfi accused the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng of failing to exercise his powers to bring the matter to finality but was only engaged in lamentations.

“He was whining and lamenting too much, you are a creation of law, exercise your powers and you are here singing ‘ankonam’.

“Kissi Agyebeng announced that a search was being but he couldn’t make the findings public.

In referring Cecilia Dapaah to EOCO he should have at least added the findings that he made through that search.

That is a missing link,” Sammy Gyamfi said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday May 4 while commenting on the advice that the Office of the Attorney-General gave to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) not to initiate any investigation in respect of money laundering into the dealings of Cecilia Dapaah.

Upon a request for advice by EOCO on the matter, the Attorney-General’s office, in a letter dated April 25, 2024, and copied to EOCO, said it found that the OSP did not submit the report on its collaborative investigation to EOCO.

Moreover, the office noted the OSP has not responded to EOCO’s request for its findings.

According to the Attorney-General’s office, the docket presented to EOCO only contains the OSP’s letter transmitting the docket, the diary of action, statements taken during the investigation, and letters written by the OSP to other institutions like the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and banks for inquiries.

Sammy Gyamfi, has said that it would be in the interest of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah that her alleged money laundering case be investigated credibly and transparently.

He said the government, seeking to shelve the matter, is rather worsening the case for the former Sanitation Minister.

But Mr.

Mahama said in a post on  on Thursday that his government will “reopen investigations into alleged acts of corruption and graft in the Cecelia Dapaah case.”

According to Sammy Gyamfi, “There is a grand conspiracy by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia NPP government to cover up the truths and real facts of this Cecilia Dapaah case.”

“This should be obvious to any objective bystander,” he said.

Furthermore, the NDC communicator maintained that President Akufo-Addo never showed interest in investigating one of his appointees for alleged corruption and money laundering “right from the get-go.”

“This government led by President himself has acted in ways that show they are not interested in an investigation at all and you see, if they think that they are helping Madam Cecilia Dapaah in doing so, then they’re mistaken,” said Mr.

Gyamfi, indicating that “they are actually worsening the case for Cecilia Dapaah.”

“Because it is in the interest of Cecilia Dapaah that this matter is investigated in a credible and transparent way,” he noted.

A-G says EOCO’s money laundering investigation is baseless

Meanwhile, further analysis of the docket by the Attorney General’s office revealed that the OSP did not find any evidence of corruption or corruption-related offenses against Cecilia Dapaah.

The Attorney General’s office emphasised that the key to pursuing money laundering investigations is the capacity to prove that financial gains were obtained from criminal proceeds arising from unlawful activity.

“In the absence of the identification of any criminality associated with the properties retrieved from the suspects, the OSP’s referral to EOCO for investigations to be conducted into money laundering is without basis,” the A-G’s advisory to EOCO emphasised.