Paul Adom Otchere has lambasted the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng for the pageantry he attached to the arrest and search of the Former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah.
According to Paul, the work of the OSP must be done in secret.
“Special Prosecutor has a very critical assignment to deliver. The Attorney General doesn’t do his work in public, no Attorney General does his work in public.
People involved in investigations do not operate in the full glare of the public live on TV and achieving stardom. Anybody who does that does not understand the work that he is doing.”
“I am going to Cecilia Dapaah’s house, why should people know? By now we should be hearing, is it true, is it not true?”
Paul Adom Otchere questioned the modus operandi of the special prosecutor and encouraged Kissi Agyebeng to change it.
Don’t call journalist and say I am going to arrest Cecilia Dapaah and so come and then there’s a tweet that our eyes are everywhere “
“Two motorbikes, three Land Cruisers, why? my advice to Kissi Agyebeng is to issue just one liner statment ‘that I am doing an investigation.
Investigator is calling journalist, follow me and then go ahead of me I will come. When he is arriving you can see the camera is already there. We do camera work so we know this camera was there before the car came or worst still the camera came and cut asked them to reverse and com back again and let me film you. I hope it is not as bad as that
Paul argues the secrecy in the work of the Special Prosecutor’s investigations are good for the office but Kissi Agyebeng is in a hurry to be in the limelight.
Background
Some close associates of the former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah are before interrogators of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to respond to questions on the stolen money.
According to media report, the close relatives were invited because Madam Dapaah mentioned that some of the money belonged to them.
Due to the information received, the OSP extended the investigation to cover the mentioned relatives to establish the truth.
Madam Dapaah is currently on bail with surety after spending hours in the custody of the OSP, who had earlier conducted searches at both her official residence in Cantonments and her private residence in Abelemkpe.
The searches were related to the alleged million-dollar cash theft by housekeepers, which led to her resignation on Saturday.
During the search conducted on Monday at her residence, JoyNews sources say the investigators discovered something significant. It is currently unclear what the significant discovery was.
But the OSP has been tightlipped on the discovery.
Madam Dapaah has been asked to complete an income and property declaration form so that the OSP can track the property she obtained and whether or not it was obtained illegally.
Media reports emerged on Friday of two housemaids who worked for the Sanitation Minister and her husband at their home, facing trial with others for the theft of huge sums of money and other items from the home.
According to the charge sheet, the pair, 18-year-old Patience Botwe and 30-year-old Sarah Agyei have allegedly stolen US$1 million, €300,000 and millions of Ghana cedis between July and October 2022.
Clothes, handbags, perfumes, jewellery, kente cloth and suits belonging to Mrs. Dapaah’s husband said to be worth thousands of dollars, are alleged to have been taken.
Following the publications, Cecilia Dapaah has become the subject of critical opprobrium.
Surprisingly, she has questioned the amounts alleged to have been stolen, saying there are “noticeable inconsistencies” in the discussions of what she reported to the police.
Due to the controversy surrounding the “stolen” cash, Madam Cecilia Dapaah resigned from her position as Sanitation Minister on Saturday, July 2022.
She was subsequently arrested and questioned by OSP and later granted bail.
Credit to 247newsgh.com
