The Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice has provided legal advice to the police regarding the theft case involving former sanitation minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
After the initial hearing of the case on July 20, the police sought guidance from the A-G’s office on how to proceed. In the nine-page advice, Deputy A-G Alfred Tuah-Yeboah outlined the events leading to the theft of money as reported by the complainants, Cecilia Dapaah and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffuor.
The advice called for further investigations into the amount of money discovered and suggested dropping some charges against certain accused individuals. In one case, it recommended dismissing all charges against the accused.
Five new findings from the document are as follows:
a. The case of theft was first reported in Tesano in October 2022, but there is no record of an arrest at the station.
b. Cecilia Dapaah officially reported the case in July 2023, approximately 10 months after the first arrest.
c. Cecilia Dapaah did not disclose the owners of two sets of missing money – US$200,000 and 300,000 euros.
d. The two former house helps deny stealing US$800,000.
e. Cecilia Dapaah claims that the stolen 300,000 cedis were donations from her mother’s funeral.
