The Citizens
Movement Against Corruption has described as alarming the amount of money
allegedly stolen from the home of the Minister for Sanitation and Water
Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
Two house helps
of the Minister are facing charges before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly
stealing an amount of $1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghanaian cedis at
her residence in Abelenkpe, Accra, in October 2022.
Other properties
belonging to the Minister and her husband valued at several millions of Ghana
Cedis were also stolen within the period.
Speaking
on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, co-chair of the Citizens Movement
Against Corruption, Edem Senanu said the huge sums of forex involved in the
case are alarming and called for an independent probe considering she is a
public officer whose monthly salary is known.
“When you have a
public officer we know her salary, and we are suddenly talking about huge sums
of money stolen from her home, then that should certainly raise red flags and
this calls for an immediate investigation. You cannot cross borders without
declaring huge sums of monies, and so we should find out how these huge amounts
in Dollars and Euros entered the country.”
He further
indicated that the Movement expects the president to ensure that an
investigation is commissioned to ascertain the source of the funds.
“We are
expecting that the president will bring a change and the speed and sensitivity
must be on the rise and the president must give us or be telling us what he
will be doing to find the truth in this matter and the minister must be asked
to step down for investigations to happen.”
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