The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has accused the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) of showing no interest in investigating money laundering charges against former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
The OSP had forwarded its docket on the former minister to EOCO for it to investigate alleged money laundering allegations against the former minister.
But EOCO’s Executive Director, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, said in a media interaction at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa that there was nothing they could do about the case.
The response from EOCO came after the Attorney General advised it to stop investigating the matter because it lacked any basis.
The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Samuel Appiah Darko, responding to the issue, indicated that EOCO simply does not have the appetite to investigate and prosecute the former minister.
“The second point I want to make is this whole idea that the docket that the OSP sent to EOCO was baseless and if you will indulge me, I am going to be a bit detailed, although we are not supposed to do this but our point is that if there is no appetite to want to investigate and prosecute, tell the people of Ghana that there is no appetite but don’t try to put the blame on the OSP,” Mr Darko said in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show on Citi FM.
“The AG saying that we had cleared Cecilia Dapaah of any offence is also not accurate because the OSP has never cleared Cecilia Dapaah because when you say you have cleared someone, it means that you have investigated and come to the conclusion that no offence has been committed.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
