Source: newsthemegh.com
A bipartisan investigation into the actions of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in the investigation into the money stash discovered in the residence of former Sanitation Minister Cecelia Dapaa is being requested in a petition filed to Parliament by a number of well-known Ghanaians, including former Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo.
The group, which also includes prominent anti-graft activist Martin Kpebu, security analyst Dr. Adam Bona, professor Ransford Gyampo, and more than a hundred other Ghanaians from various backgrounds, contends in their petition that EOCO had more than enough grounds to look into the former Minister for money laundering because she has been uncooperative and unable to identify the source of the enormous sum of money that the Special Prosecutor seized from her home.
The petition, among other things, was brought before Parliament on Thursday, May 16, 2024, stated, “The failure to explain the source of the money should have been the corner stone of the investigation,”
Concerns were also expressed regarding what the group perceived to be EOCO’s purposeful failure to take action to safeguard the funds that the OSP had taken from the former minister’s home.
Additionally, according to the petition, EOCO’s public remarks and investigative measures have been contradictory.
“Upon receipt of the docket, EOCO did not act timeously to seize the money that the OSP was returning to Madam Cecelia Dapaa as public stated by the OSP”.
The development follows the impasse between state anti-corruption organizations looking into the former Minister’s money hoard.
Despite the comprehensive material that EOCO presented with them, the OSP is known to have expressed that it is not motivated to go further into the situation.