Cecilia Abena Dapaah Archives

02 May

Cecilia Dapaah’s Case: AG Advises EOCO Against Money Laundering Probe

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The office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice has discouraged the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) from pursuing money laundering investigations into the activities of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah. This comes after the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) had referred the case to the Executive Director of EOCO, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, for investigations on money laundering and structuring, but the AG's Office has requested clarity on the basis of the suspicion of money laundering. In a statement released to EOCO, the AG's Office highlighted that investigations by the Special Prosecutor did not establish any evidence…

09 Oct

I Have No Real Estate Business – Cecilia Dapaah Insists

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Former Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has refuted allegations by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) that she has an undeclared real estate business. According to her, the OSP has not provided any evidence of that claim. The court document filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor said Cecilia Abena Dapaah "was engaged in undisclosed and undeclared real estate business in which she obscured and concealed the transactions by employing the use of aliases to avoid detection of the actual ownership of the business and properties, while cleverly receiving proceeds of the transactions in her bank…

03 Aug

GRA Petitioned To Conduct Comprehensive Tax Audit On Cecilia Dapaah

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Former President of the Chartered Institue of Taxation Ghana and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Mike Kofi Aflu, has petitioned the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to conduct a comprehensive tax audit on the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Abena Dapaah. “I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirit. I am writing to draw your attention a matter of utmost importance and public interest. “As a citizen of Ghana, I am deeply troubled by recent revelations regarding the discovery of various sums of cash in different currencies at the residence of…

24 Jul

I Am Confident That Your Integrity While In Office Will Be Established – Akufo-Addo To Cecilia Dapaah

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has vouched for the integrity of former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, in the wake of recent allegations of stolen funds from her home. The former minister is reported in court documents to have lost over US$1 million, €300,000, and 350,000 Ghana cedis in cash to two former house helps. She has resigned from the Akufo-Addo-led administration to allow for investigations. In a letter accepting the resignation of Cecilia Abena Dapaah, President Akufo-Addo conveyed his belief that her integrity, established during her tenure in office, would ultimately be vindicated. Part of…

22 Jul

“I Will Be Exonerated From All Allegations”- Cecilia Dapaah Resigns As Sanitation Minister

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The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resource, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has tendered her resignation letter to the President. This comes after it had emerged that two house helps of hers, had stolen funds of $1M, 300K EUROs, millions of cedis among others from her bedroom. This had sparked public uproar in the last 24 hours, with Ghanaians asking where she got such huge sums of money from. In a letter of resignation signed by the Minister, she emphatically stated that those figures do not represent correctly, what her husband and she reported to the Police. She's therefore resigning because she…

21 Jul

US$1m, €300k Stolen From Cecilia Dapaah’s Home At Abelemkpe – Court Told

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Two house helps, 18-year-old Patience Botwe and 30-year-old Sarah Agyei, are currently facing charges before an Accra Circuit Court for their alleged involvement in the theft of significant sums of money and personal belongings belonging to Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffour. According to a report by The Chronicle, the thefts, which amount to millions of Ghana Cedis, reportedly took place at the couple's residence in Abelemkpe, a suburb of Accra, between July and October 2022. The accused, Patience and Sarah, are facing one count of conspiracy to commit a crime…

16 Mar

Engineering Works On Expansion Of Weija Water Treatment Plant Complete – Cecilia Dapaah

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The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah, says plans are underway to expand the Weija Water Treatment Plant (WTP) to serve more people as the Greater Accra Region’s population keeps growing. Currently, she said the region had more than 4.5 million people, adding that the expansion project’s engineering works and feasibility studies had already been done. The minister disclosed these yesterday, during a tour of the plant with Cote d’Ivoire’s Minister for Water and Forests, Mr Laurent Tchagba and his delegation, to introduce the facility to them, as part of steps to collaborate with Ghana’s neighbouring countries for proper…

15 Feb

Government Has Invested $1bn Into Sanitation, Water – Cecilia Dapaah Reveals

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Government has invested about $1 billion about into facilitating the provision of sustainable water and sanitation needs across the country, the sector Minister has revealed. According to Cecilia Abena Dapaah, government employed a Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach in tackling the rising demand for water and sanitation needs over the years. Mrs Dapaah made this revelation when the Executive Secretary of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), Dr Rashid Mbaziira, paid a courtesy call on her in Accra. She noted that the deployment of the PPP approach led to the provision of Integrated Compost and Recycling Plants, Wastewater Treatment…