Gyampo slams Akufo-Addo for preempting probe into Cecilia Dapaah’s scandal

Professor Ransford Gyampo, a senior lecturer and political scientist at the University of Ghana, has strongly criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for making comments that could potentially undermine the ongoing investigation into the scandal involving former Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena-Dapaah.

The President in accepting the resignation of the former minister said “At the end of the day, your integrity, whilst in office, will be fully established”.

He further emphasized that it is a recurring issue where the President tends to express hope for the exoneration of individuals under investigation.

It shouldn’t come from the president.

However, he applauded the former minister for taking such a bold decision to resign from her position.

She saved herself and the president from the kind of critique that would have been levelled against the president, who wouldn’t have heeded any call to fire her” he stated.

Officials from the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on Monday, July 24, 2023, searched the home of the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources.