Cecilia Dapaah case: EOCO will sit up and work if… – GII Boss

The Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Adda, has bemoaned the apparent lack of interest from EOCO and OSP to probe further the alleged money laundering case involving the former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah.

According to her, this has resulted in a shifting of burden between the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

She asserted that the actions of the two bodies create the impression that some people are untouchable.

In an interview on Accra-based Citi FM on Tuesday, May 7, Mary Adda voiced dissatisfaction about the lack of communication that exists between OSP and EOCO, claiming that this has caused certain investigations to come to a halt.

Madam Adda said the attitude of the two bodies “begins to give the impression to some of us that there is something we are not being told. Everybody is trying to shift the burden to the other and that is not fair. It was myself or you; people will work. EOCO will sit up, they will do suspicious transaction tracing, and they will work with the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) if it was necessary. 

Cecilia Dapaah case: EOCO has long returned docket to us – OSP reveals

“So the impression is being created that some people are untouchable and so if we do not want to touch them, we shift the burden to the other and we continue to shift until we give it to those who cannot do anything about it. So that is the impression and I believe that is why CDD is saying it is a done deal,” said the anti-graft crusader. 

EOCO to return docket

The Executive Director of EOCO, COP Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, while addressing the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa on Monday, said her outfit intends to return the docket to the OSP because there is nothing to investigate.

Read also: ‘We never cleared Cecilia Dapaah’ – OSP tells Attorney-General

“If you read the A-G’s advice, whatever that we would have done had already been directed at the police CID. And like he said this morning, when you investigate a case and you do not find anything, we should be bold enough to come and tell the public that for this case, even though I suspected this at the day, that wasn’t what came out; we should be bold with Ghanaians,” said COP Addo-Danquah.

Contrary to this, the Director of Strategy, Research and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Samuel Appiah Darko, has revealed that EOCO has already returned the docket on Cecilia Dapaah’s alleged money laundering case to the OSP.

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